Daily Archives: November 23, 2012
Ethiopia – Ethiopia has begun construction of a 6,000 megawatt (MW) hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile river, a move that has been greeted enthusiastically by many Ethiopians but that is causing concern in the downstream nations of Sudan and … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Blue Nile, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, IndepthAfrica, Lake Tana, Nile, Sudan
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By Getahune Bekele “My countrymen… do not believe the fascists if they tell you that the patriots are bandits. The patriots are people who yearn for freedom from the terrors of fascism. “Bandits are the solders (Italians) who are standing … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Getahune Bekele
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Tagged 29 July 1936, Abaye, Addis Ababa, Debre Libanos, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Fiche, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Italy
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OPINION The authority controlling parts of northern Somalia (or as it likes to be known Somaliland) is at it again orchestrating a deceptive operation against the locals and the international community. After many weeks of forming, dissolving and reshuffling purported … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Somali
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Tagged Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Isaaq, Silanyo, Somali, Somali people, Somalia, Somaliland
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Sierra Leone’s president, Ernest Bai Koroma, has won re-election with 58.7 percent of the vote, ahead of his top rival Julius Maada Bio on 37.4 percent, the West African state’s electoral body announced on Friday. Koroma has overseen an investment … read more »
Posted in Election, Sierra Leone, West Africa
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Tagged All People's Congress, Election, Ernest Bai Koroma, Freetown, IndepthAfrica, Julius Maada Bio, President of Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone, West Africa
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Last week I attended a sub-regional journalist’s conference organized by East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP) at the outskirts of Kampala. The very first day of the conference coincided with the deliberation of Ethiopia’s bid for … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kiflu Hussain
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Tagged African Union, Banjul, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Hailemariam Desalegne, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, United Nation, United Nations Human Rights Council
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For the last several months Rwandans, Congolese, Africans and the international community have watched as the predictable drama from Paul Kagame‘s regime plays out once again in the Kivu region of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. With the birth of … read more »
Posted in Article, Central Africa, DR Congo, East Africa, Rwanda
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Tagged Ban Ki-moon, Democratic Republic Congo, Goma, IndepthAfrica, Kagame, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, United Nations, United States
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As it happened four years ago, the Israelis are again in Gaza, cutting down anything and everyone in their way. As they are known to be, the Israelis do not discriminate when it comes to killing: the Old Testament of … read more »
Posted in Egypt, Global Issues, Middle East, North Africa
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Tagged Anwar Sadat, Gaza, Israel, israeli, Middle East, Palestine, United Nations General Assembly, United States
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Robele Ababya The Nile water is the sole lifeline for Egypt to which the Blue Nile River contributes 85%. The Blue Nile River is a vital indispensable resource of Ethiopia for irrigation farming in view of her increasing population, source … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Robele Ababya
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Tagged Anwar Sadat, Blue Nile, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Nile, Nile River, Sudan, Wikipedia
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The way in which the ANC elects its president is deeply flawed, is skewed towards churning out poor quality leaders and turns members and supporters into frustrated and impotent bystanders. Firstly, the 4500 voting delegates that will vote for the … read more »
Catherine Wambua-Soi Twenty-one victims from Sunday’s explosion of a minibus in Nairobi’s Somali-dominated Eastleigh suburb popularly known as “little Mogadishu” are still recuperating at the country’s main hospital, Kenyatta national hospital. I went to visit them. They had head, arm … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Kenya, Somali
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Tagged Al-Shabaab, Eastleigh, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, kenya news, Kenyan Somali, Nairobi, Somali, somali news, Somali people, Somalia
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Tanks, armoured vehicles and troops were seen advancing past the international airport and towards government buildings along one of the main boulevards in the capital, Khartoum, in the early hours of Thursday morning. It was not clear if they were … read more »
Posted in East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Bashir, Darfur, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Khartoum, Omar al-Bashir, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Thursday
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“…What does (Kenya) want to achieve from the incursion, knowing that the Ethiopia invasion created Al-Shabaab, the opposite of what was expected? Who can guarantee the invasion would not reinvigorate Somali nationalism hence energising radicalism that might even engulf the … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Kenya, Somali
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Tagged Al-Shabaab, Eastleigh, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Kenyan, kenyan news, Nairobi, Somali, somali news, Somali people, Somalia
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The topic is probably the least that Zimbabweans want to hear about and justifiably so. With the Zimbabwean dollar in free fall, the usefulness of money for all its basic functions such as medium of exchange, unit of account and … read more »
Posted in Addmore Zhou, Article, Columnist, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Central bank, Common Monetary Area, IndepthAfrica, Robert Mugabe, South Africa, South African rand, United States, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front
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By: Menelik Ezana We Ethiopians are always amazed by Egypt’s rigid and old fashioned Nile monopolization. And the state has a known quotation “No Nile No Egypt”. This quotation is now changed “No Nile No Ethiopia” or “No Nile No East Africa”. … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, North Africa
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Tagged East Africa, Egypt, Egyptians, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Nile, North Africa, Sudan
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