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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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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By Oscar Rickett Andargachew Tsege, known to his friends and family as Andy, is a British citizen who has been held in a secret prison in Ethiopia since June. The government of the East African country has used its stringent anti-terrorism laws, adapted from British and American ones, to charge Tsege with plotting a coup
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By Tesfa-Alem Tekle ADDIS ABABA – Sudanese president, Omer Hassan al-Bashir, on Wednesday vowed to further strengthen bilateral ties, especially economic ties with neighbouring Ethiopia. Bashir made the remarks this morning while delivering solidarity message at the celebrations held at Ethiopia’s northern city of Mekele to mark the 40th anniversary of the Tigray People’s Liberation
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(ADDIS ABABA) – Sudanese President, Omer al-Bashir, on Tuesday arrived in the Ethiopia’s northern Tigray regional capital, Mekelle to attend the 40th anniversary of Tigray People’s Revolutionary Front (TPLF). Upon arrival at Mekelle’s Alula Aba-Nega Airport, al-Bashir was warmly welcomed by higher regional and federal government officials. The people in Tigray will on Wednesday mark
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Al Jazeera – The Stream: Ethiopia’s media war:
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