Kenyans near world’s largest desert lake predict conflict, hunger and cultural devastation when hydroelectric project is completed An armed Turkana man on the shore of Lake Turkana. Locals fear the completion of the Gibe III dam could exacerbate tension in the region between Kenyans and Ethiopians. Photograph: Siegfried Modola/Reuters By John Vidal, The Guardian People living near
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Press Release Bench Events, the organiser of the Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF) today announced that the conference will return to Addis Ababa in 2015. It will take place again at the Sheraton Hotel on 30th September and 1st October. There has been much speculation about location of the next AHIF, after more than a
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BRUSSELS, Jan 12 (Reuters) – Heineken is betting on Ethiopia’s rising incomes to fuel rapid expansion of the beer market in Africa’s second most populous country, where the group is the first of the big international brewers to build a new plant. Ethiopia’s average annual beer consumption of some 5 litres per capita is about
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By Jeffrey Cavanaugh As a frontier market, the countries of Africa represent both tremendous opportunities and tremendous risks. On the risk side of the ledger are all the usual complications of international trade and investment compounded by the problems inherent in a developing, emergent continental market consisting of 54 countries and 1.1 billion people –
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Press Release CLINTON, Massachusetts – Sixty Ethiopian icons and artifacts from a European private collection will be on display at the Museum of Russian Icons here beginning January 21. “The Vibrant Art and Storied History of Ethiopian Icons” involves the German-based curator, Dr Marc Loerke, according to a press release whose full text is as
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Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia facing negotiation difficulties, says irrigation minister advisor Egypt rejected the current the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam’s (GERD) high storage capacity, as studies showed it will affect its national water security, reported state-owned Middle East News Agency (MENA) Sunday. The dam’s storage capacity reaches 74bn cubic meters. Calling such capacity “unjustified and
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An Ethiopian maid committed suicide here Sunday, said Al-Jouf Police spokesman Col. Turki Al-Muwaishir. She used a piece of cloth to hang herself from window. The maid’s sponsor reported her death to the police after he saw her body hanging from the window. Paramedics transported her body to hospital where a postmortem examination will be
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An Ethiopian maid committed suicide here Sunday, said Al-Jouf Police spokesman Col. Turki Al-Muwaishir. She used a piece of cloth to hang herself from window. The maid’s sponsor reported her death to the police after he saw her body hanging from the window. Paramedics transported her body to hospital where a postmortem examination will be
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And it all started with some goats…. Ethiopian coffee ceremony (Photo: Steve Evans) KALDI was an Ethiopian goat herder from Kaffa who is said to have “discovered” coffee after he noticed his goats dancing, unable to sleep at night and acting strange after they had eaten red berries from a certain tree. Many believe the
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Ethiopia will seek to rein in its population growth by bringing its people’s fertility rate down to 2.6 percent in 2020 from 4.1 percent at present, a government official has said. “With 90 million people, Ethiopia is the most populous state in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Berhane Assefa, a family planning service coordinator at the Ministry of
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