Tag Archives: Blue Nile
Egypt and Ethiopia are in a war of words concerning the damming of the Blue Nile. Ethiopia intends, and has already completed twenty-one percent of the construction of the dam, to generate 6000 megawatts of electricity, which is equivalent to … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged 1997 UN Convention, Blue Nile, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Nile, Permanent Court of International Justice, Sudan
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By Jacky Mamou, and David Khalfa, Ten years, that makes ten years, that the people of Darfur have endured such suffering that the Secretary General of the United Nations, Koffi Anan, decried the situation as “hell on Earth” in 2004. … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Op-ed, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Blue Nile, Darfur, International Criminal Court, Khartoum, Omar al-Bashir, South Kordofan, Sudan, United Nations Security Council
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Teshome Abebe Much has been said and written over the past couple of weeks about Egypt, the Blue Nile, Ethiopia’s determination and resolve, and the national identity. This article is not intended to add to the volumes of responses and … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Djibouti, East Africa, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, North Africa, Op-ed, Teshome Abebe
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Tagged Blue Nile, Egypt, Egyptian, Ethiopia, Ethiopian government, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, IndepthAfrica, Politics of Ethiopia, Sudan
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Meles Zenawi is dead. Meles Zenawi is alive. I am afraid in our case both statements are true. We saw the tyrant being buried or placed six foot under and the extraordinary sendoff orchestrated by his politburo in living color. … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Abay, Blue Nile, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Nile, Somalia, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front
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ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia will press ahead with the construction of its Grand Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile River, officials said Thursday, the day after Egypt warned “all options are open” if its water supply is affected. “We are … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Pan African News
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Tagged Blue Nile, Cairo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, IndepthAfrica, Mohamed Morsi, Nile, Sudan
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Middle East Online Power-generating dam is predicted to reduce Egypt’s, Sudan’s share of Nile River water by 18 billion cubic meters annually. CAIRO – Egypt Islamist President Mohamed Morsi will convene on Thursday with Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Water … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Blue Nile, Egypt, Ethiopia, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, IndepthFArica, Mohamed Morsi, Nile, Sudan
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Ethiopia has started to divert the flow of the Blue Nile river to construct a giant dam to meet its energy needs, according to state media, amid concerns from other Nile-dependent countries downstream. Demeky Mekonin, the Ethiopian prime minister, said … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Pan African News, Sudan
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Tagged Al-Jazeera, Blue Nile, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Great Comet, IndepthAfrica, Nile, Sudan
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Meles Zenawi when he was alive and his apostles today (“Melesistas”) keep playing us in the Diaspora like a cheap fiddle. They make us screech, shriek, scream and shout by simply showing their mugs in our cities. How do they … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Blue Nile, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, New York City, Nile, San Diego, Sudan
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By Eric Reeves There is in Darfur no end in sight for conflict, murder, rape, assaults on displaced persons camps, agricultural and village destruction, brutal extortion schemes, and continuing violent human displacement. The primary targets of this mayhem overseen by … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Op-ed, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Blue Nile, Darfur, Darfur Peace Agreement, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Khartoum, New England Journal of Medicine, Sudan, War in Darfur
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Ethiopia has rejected a media report claiming arrangements have been made to repatriate some 33,000 Sudanese refugees from camps in Ethiopia. The government affiliated Sudanese Media Centre this week also … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Blue Nile, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Sherkole, South Sudan, Sudan, UNHCR, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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By Luka Biong Deng With the signing of the implementation matrix for the nine agreements signed by South Sudan and Sudan in September 2012, there is now a growing optimism in the normalization of relations between South Sudan and Sudan. … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Op-ed, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Abyei, Bashir, Blue Nile, IndepthAfrica, Juba, Khartoum, Nuba Mountain, South Sudan, Sudan
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By Eric Reeves A number of very recent, highly credible, ground-based reports indicate that Khartoum’s regular Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Arab militia proxies have attacked the Kiir Adem area of Northern Bahr el-Ghazal State, South Sudan. What makes these … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Op-ed, Sudan
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Tagged Blue Nile, Comprehensive Peace Agreement, Darfur, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Khartoum, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan, Sudan
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(WIC) – Office of the National Council for the Coordination of Public Participation on the construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam said the 2nd anniversary of the commencement of the Dam’s construction is to be marked with literary and sport … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Blue Nile, Construction, Dam, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, latest ethiopian news, Meles, news ethiopia, Nile, Project Management
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By Tesfa-Alem Tekle Addis Ababa — The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says it is preparing to relocate thousands of South Sudanese refugees stranded at Ethiopian border villages. UNHCR’s spokesperson in Ethiopia, Kisut Gebreegziabher, told Sudan Tribune on … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Blue Nile, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, SouthSudan, Sudan, Sudan Tribune, UNHCR, World Food Programme
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Dear Prof. Alemayehu, Even our Egyptian brothers will not say about the dam, as Prof. Alemayehu. Some of them know the dam what we we build now is the dam they are going to build after a century for them … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Aswan, Aswan Dam, Blue Nile, Egypt, Egyptians, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, latest ethiopian news, Meles Zenawi, news ethiopia, Nile, Saudi Arabia, Sudan
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By Mahmoud A. Suleiman This article comes against the backdrop of the tenth anniversary by 26 February 2003 when the two Darfuri rebel groups the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and Sudan Liberation Army/Movement (SLA/M) had to take up arms … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Blue Nile, Darfur, IndepthAfrica, Justice and Equality Movement, Khartoum, NCP, Omar al-Bashir, Sudan, Tutsi
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Analysis The plea could hardly be simpler, or more urgent: “Just stop the planes.” This cry for help came from “Khadija,” a woman interviewed by Amnesty International (see below) while standing in front of the bombed remains of her home … read more »
Posted in Analysis, East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Blue Nile, IndepthAfrica, Khartoum, Nuba, Nuba Mountain, South Kordofan, SouthSudan, Sudan, Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement
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By ANDREW CARLSON Origins A Publication of Ohio State University vol. 6, issue 6 – March 2013 Editor’s Note: Egypt and Sudan are utterly dependent on the waters of the Nile River. Over the past century both of these desert … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Blue Nile, Egypt, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, Nile, Nile River, Sudan
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By: John Muchira Fears that construction of a mega hydroelectric plant in Ethiopia could stall owing to financial constraints have forced the authorities to turn to desperate measures to raise funds. To ensure implementation of the Grand Renaissance dam project … read more »
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Tagged Blue Nile, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, Ethiopian government, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, IMF, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, International Monetary Fund, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia
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By Anne Bartlett If the last year has taught us anything about Sudan, it is that there is already so much hot air in Khartoum that the Sudanese government does not feel in the slightest bit concerned about some more … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Sudan
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Tagged African Union, Blue Nile, Darfur, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica news, Khartoum, Sahel, SouthSudan, Sudan, Sudanese government
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By Eric Reeves Three recent assessments missions to Blue Nile have powerfully expanded our view of the vast crisis in this desperate region, as well as of the better reported humanitarian crisis engineered by Khartoum in the Nuba Mountains of … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, Sudan
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Tagged Aegis Trust, Blue Nile, Darfur, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, Mukesh Kapila, Nile River, Nuba Mountain, SouthSudan, Sudan
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By Seifulaziz Milas Sudan’s President, General Ahmed Al-Bashir and South Sudan’s President Silva Kiir met in Addis Ababa on 4th January for talks aimed at resolving their on-going conflict.But this has all happened before, and is likely to happen again, … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Al-Bashir, Blue Nile, Darfur, IndepthAfrica, Khartoum, National Congress, South Kordofan, SouthSudan, Sudan, Sudan news, sudanenes news
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The Silent World of Hippos on Planet Cheetah In my first weekly commentary of the new year, I “proclaimed” 2013 “Year of Ethiopia’s Cheetah Generation” (young people). I also promised to reach, teach and preach to Ethiopia’s youth this year … read more »
Posted in Alemayehu G. Mariam, Article, Columnist, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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By Seifulaziz Milas Sudan’s President, General Ahmed Al-Bashir and South Sudan’s President Silva Kiir met in Addis Ababa on 4th January for talks aimed at resolving their on-going conflict.But this has all happened before, and is likely to happen again, … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Al-Bashir, Blue Nile, Darfur, IndepthAfrica, Khartoum, National Congress, South Kordofan, SouthSudan, Sudan
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By Eric Reeves On January 29, 2013 a development conference, designed to promote international investment in Sudan, will be held in Berlin, Germany—sponsored by the German government with very little other European or U.S. support. This lack of support forced … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Blue Nile, Darfur, IndepthAfrica, Khartoum, Mukesh Kapila, Nuba, Nuba Mountain, South Sudan, Sudan
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Ethiopian police have arrested two men suspected of involvement in the murder of an Austrian rafter shot dead during an apparent robbery of his travel group, an official from the force said on Thursday. The 27-year-old man was killed as … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Afar Region, Amhara people, Austria, Bahirdar, Blue Nile, Eritrea, Ethiopia, ethiopia austrian murder, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica
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Ethiopia and Sudan are in negotiations to balance the revenues earned from Ethiopia’s sale of electric power to Sudan with the equivalent expenditure of oil imported from Sudan to Ethiopia, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Addis Ababa. … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Blue Nile, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Indepth Africa Magazine, Nile, Sudan
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By Michal Shmulovich,timesofisrael JENDA, Ethiopia — In a secluded village in northern Ethiopia, near the foot of the Blue Nile, Zahava Aregito Zagaya, 16, and a group of other Israeli-Ethiopian teens were walking through expansive green and yellow pastures of … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Special Reports
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Amharic language, Blue Nile, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jewish Agency for Israel, Yedioth Ahronoth, Zahava
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Bau — The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) is accusing the Sudanese popular defense forces of raping 10 women and killing nine of them in Bau locality, Blue Nile, Radio Dabanga has learned. Arnu Ngutulu Lodi, the movement’s spokesman, said … read more »
Posted in East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Blue Nile, IndepthAfrica, National Congress, Radio Dabanga, South Kordofan, SouthSudan, SPLM-N, Sudan, Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement
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The discovery of putrefying bodies of an undisclosed number of Darfur students enrolled at Al-Gezeira University in a canal in the city of Wad Madani corroborate petrifying portents for Sudan. Whether this grizzly incidence dooms Sudan’s peace prospects depends on … read more »
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Tagged African Union, Blue Nile, IndepthAfrica, Juba, Khartoum, Omar al-Bashir, South Kordofan, SouthSudan, Sudan
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