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Sudan announces failure of GERD negotiations, returns file to African Union
Published: November 6, 2020

November 5, 2020 | Egypt independent Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia’s water resource ministers agreed to end the current round of negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and return the file to the African Union. The current round, which starte …


Satellite data provides fresh insights into the amount of water in the Nile basin
Published: November 6, 2020

Emad Hasan and Aondover Tarhule | November 4, 2020 | The Conversation Cairo, Egypt. AlexAnton/Shutterstock Flowing through 11 African countries, the Nile River plays an important role in the lives of more than 24% of Africa’s population. To both upstre …


Ethiopia blasts Trump remark that Egypt will ‘blow up’ dam
Published: October 24, 2020

October 24, 2020 | Egypt Independent US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, center right, walks with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, center-left, after meeting at the Prime Minister’s office in Addis Ababa. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia on Sa …


GERD construction may stall because of financial problems: former minister
Published: October 21, 2020

October 20, 2020 | Egypt Independent GERD, Ethiopia The construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) may stall, as the Italian companies that are set to build the dam have not yet been paid, according to Egypt’s former Minister of Water R …


Fake trafficking news targets migrants
Published: October 20, 2020

Jan Bornman | 20 Oct 2020 | Mail & Guardian (Illustration by Anastasya Eliseeva) A global conspiracy theory that has been growing in the United States in recent months has found its way into South Africa, with social media users getting behind a co …


Angola grabs assets from generals close to former president
Published: October 20, 2020

Assets seized from the two generals implicated in corruption include a brewery, vehicle assembly plant and a cement factory CANDIDO MENDES | 15 OCTOBER 2020 | Business Day Picture: 123RF/Eleonora Konnova Angolan prosecutors have seized assets belonging …


Hero Rat Wins A Top Animal Award For Sniffing Out Land Mines
Published: October 17, 2020

LAUREL WAMSLEY | September 25, 2020 | NPR.ORG Magawa, a rat that has been trained to detect explosives, was awarded the PDSA Gold Medal on Friday for bravery in searching out unexploded land mines in Cambodia.PDSA via AP For the first time, one of Brit …


Ethiopia increases GERD storage capacity to 74 billion cubic meters without research
Published: October 17, 2020

Al-Masry Al-Youm| October 16, 2020 | Egypt Independent GERD 2020 Ethiopia has increased the storage capacity of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) from 11 to 74 billion cubic meters, without confirming studies on its safety or environmental imp …


PODCAST | IMF Africa head Abebe Aemro Selassie: optimist and believer in the African Century
Published: October 15, 2020

07 OCTOBER 2020 | Business Day Click here to listen to the podcast. In this edition of African Business podcast we speak to Abebe Aemro Selassie about the outlook for African economies in the wake of the pandemic. Selassie is t …


Lucy King: How Can Bees Keep The Peace Between Elephants And Humans?
Published: September 29, 2020

September 4, 2020 | NPR/TED STAFF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on0B0iCovOo


Is It Even Possible To Spend $70,000 On Hair? Stylists Break It Down
Published: September 29, 2020

There are a few scenarios where Donald Trump’s high hairstyling bill would actually make sense, according to these experts. Jamie Feldman | 09/28/2020 | HUFFPOST A recent bombshell New York Times report revealed that President Donald Trump …


Does US military training incubate coups in Africa? The jury is still out
Published: September 29, 2020

Lee J. M. Seymour and Theodore McLauchlin | September 28, 2020 | The Conversation Michele Cattani/AFP via Getty Images Military officers overthrew Mali’s government in a coup d’état on August 18, 2020. Among the more worrying aspects of the c …


This is how Lungu is planning to rig Zambia’s 2021 general election
Published: September 28, 2020

Sishuwa Sishuwa | 25 Sep 2020 | Mail & Guardian Edgar Lungu. Election rigging in many of Africa’s democracies occurs through a range of strategies, such as ballot-box stuffing, electoral bribery, violence against political opponents and the em …


ሕቶን መልስን ኣስተምህሮ ኣቦ መንበር ኮምሽን ቅዋም ነበር ዶር በረኸት ሃብተስላሰ ብዛዕባ መስርሕ ቅዋም ኤርትራ
Published: September 14, 2020

Assena TV | September 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi1LBQs6chk Assena TV| September 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i73xMdjtcH4 Assena TV | September 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Oxc7bdwaX4


Israel-UAE trade will overtake deals with Egypt
Published: September 14, 2020

Emirati market regulations are far more business friendly, and its contract enforcement is significantly more reliable TIMOTHY KALDAS |10 SEPTEMBER 2020 |BUSINESS DAY US Marine Corps F-35B fighter jets drop bombs. Picture: REUTERS/KOREAN AIR FORCE/YONH …


Abandoned in Lebanon, African domestic workers just want to go home
Published: September 14, 2020

Zecharias Zelalem |14 Sep 2020 | Mail & Guardian Members of the Oromo Ethiopian community in Lebanon take part in a demonstration to protest the death of musician and activist Hachalu Hundessa, in the capital Beirut on July 5 2020. Hundessa was sho …


Why a proposed Horn of Africa bloc could destabilise the larger region
Published: September 14, 2020

Ingo Henneberg and Sören Stapel |September 8, 2020 | The Conversation Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki (left), Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (right) and Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. Relations in the Horn of Africa a …


Rwanda’s Kagame denies Paul Rusesabagina was kidnapped
Published: September 7, 2020

President says detained government critic ‘led himself’ to Rwanda, accuses him of of being a ‘terrorist’ leader. Al Jazeera | 7 September, 2020 Rusesabagina was paraded last week in front of media in handcuffs at the Kigali headquarters of the Rwanda I …


Editorial: The ANC buys itself (more) time
Published: September 7, 2020

Editorial | 4 Sep 2020 | Mail & Guardian There is a truth in politics: this crisis will pass, and people will be distracted by the next one. Just survive this moment, and you will escape accountability.   This is a universal playbook, and the ANC k …


Kenyan cops cash in on Covid-19
Published: September 7, 2020

Muthoni Gitonga |5 Sep 2020 | Mail & Guardian Excessive force: Men protest while pulling a cart carrying the body of Vitallis Ochilo Owino in the Mathare slums of Nairobi on May 4. He was allegedly beaten to death by police officers while walking i …


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