Aljazeera Documents show S African and Ethiopian agencies in crisis, suspected Sudan, amid reported 2012 plot to kill AU chief. Secret intelligence documents leaked to Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit reveal that spies in Addis Ababa were alerted to a plot by “an unnamed state” to kill a top African Union diplomat. Ethiopian agents later accused
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The Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan police said Tuesday they arrested 101 Ethiopian nationals suspected of traveling illegally through Kenya on their way to South Africa. The suspects appeared before Magistrate Victor Wakumile but were not charged because they did not understand English and there was no Amharic interpreter. Wakumile postponed the case to
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Egypt’s irrigation ministry spokesman says countries to choose firm by first week of March Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia have received offers from four firms to conduct technical studies on the latter’s large-scale dam project, which Cairo fears will affect its supply of water from the Nile River. Alaa Yassin, spokesperson on the Ethiopia dam issue
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By Aya Nader Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation says Egypt is open to Nile Basin Convention amendments. Egypt attended for the first time in five years a Nile Basin Initiative meeting which took place in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, Saturday, after receiving an invitation from Sudan. Egypt had boycotted the initiative after the Basin
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(Washington, DC) – The World Bank should fully address serious human rights issues raised by the bank’s internal investigation into a project in Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the bank’s vice president for Africa. The bank’s response to the investigation findings attempts to distance the bank from the many problems confirmed
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Ahram Online The tripartite committee of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan is set to meet in the Sudanese capital Khartoum next month to discuss unresolved issues over the contested Ethiopian dam, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported. Sudanese water resources and electricity minister Mutaz Moussa said the meeting aims to reach an agreement on a political framework
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Ethiopia’s Endeshaw Negesse held off world and Olympic champion Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda to win Sunday’s Tokyo Marathon, part of the six-race World Marathon Majors series. The 26-year-old Negesse took the tape in 2 hours, 6 minutes flat ahead of Kiprotich (2:06:33) and defending champion and race record-holder Dickson Chumba of Kenya, who came in
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By Tewodros Abebe, Accokeek The Feb. 9 editorial “Ethiopia’s stifled press” raised fundamental issues of human rights, democracy and governance. The journalists and bloggers languishing in prison committed no crime except to criticize the ruling party. If the government of Ethiopia is concerned for its citizens, as a spokesman asserted in a Feb. 13 letter
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Khartoum – Efforts are underway to convert link Sudan and Ethiopia’s common border to an area of integration between the two countries. The countries are also working to link their people by all means and to promote cooperation in all fields. Meanwhile, President Omar Al Bashir greeted the people of Tigray and all African peoples
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By India Rakusen, BBC The Free Zone 9 Bloggers In April 2014 BBC Trending covered the arrest of six bloggers and three journalists in Ethiopia. The bloggers are part of a group known as Zone 9, and are well known for campaigning around censorship and human rights issues in Ethiopia. Ten months on from their
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