Month: December 2015

Ethiopia and Nigeria Bet Big on Infrastructure, but Will It Work?

By Alex Thurston Source: World Politics Review Across Africa, there is renewed interest in strengthening infrastructure. In November, the African Development Bank held its “first-ever Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa Week” in Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote d’Ivoire. The conference emphasized infrastructure, especially transportation and communications, on the continent. Infrastructure development is important

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CPJ: Q & A with Journalist Reeyot Alemu

CPJ CPJ’s years-long advocacy paid off in July with the release from prison of Reeyot Alemu, a journalist who has been jailed in Ethiopia since 2011. Reeyot wrote columns critical of the government for the now-defunct independent weekly Feteh. In 2012, a court sentencedher on terrorism charges to 14 years in prison, which was laterreduced

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Ethiopia Sees Nationwide Power Cuts While Drought Dries Dams

By William Davison : Bloomberg Ethiopia may face further power shortages because of low water levels at dams after a poor rainy season, an official said, following two days of sporadic cuts caused by technical faults at hydropower plants. Unspecified issues at a substation serving Oromia region’s Gibe 1 and 2 plants, which together can

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Ethiopia Sees Nationwide Power Cuts While Drought Dries Dams

By William Davison : Bloomberg Ethiopia may face further power shortages because of low water levels at dams after a poor rainy season, an official said, following two days of sporadic cuts caused by technical faults at hydropower plants. Unspecified issues at a substation serving Oromia region’s Gibe 1 and 2 plants, which together can

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