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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Al-Shabab has said it will target government officials Some 20 people, including senior officials, have been killed in an attack on a hotel in the Somali capital, witnesses have told the BBC. The Central Hotel, often frequented by politicians, was hit by a car bomb and a suicide attack. Gunmen then stormed the hotel mosque
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Marthe van der Wolf, VOA Two optical telescopes are the latest means through which Ethiopia aims to use space technology to further the country’s development. The observatory is fully functional, and soon it will be fully operated by Ethiopia’s own engineers. Astrophysicist David Buckley and other scientists have been in Ethiopia for weeks to test
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ELEVEN Ethiopia nationals arrested on Monday for being in Kenya illegally have been fined Sh10,000 each or three-month jail terms. The 11 yesterday pleaded guilty to the charges before chief magistrate Steven Riech and asked the court to forgive them. They were heading to South Africa when police arrested them at Mrima, Likoni subcounty, after
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