Mohamed Adow | Mon 20 Jul 2020 | The Guardian Nigel Lawson’s thinktank is pushing dirty energy on the continent with the greatest capacity for creating clean fuel The power of climate science denial in the UK, thankfully, has been in retreat over the p …
Sudan announces sudden decline of Nile waters despite Ethiopia’s denial of dam filling
July 20, 2020 | Egypt Independent The Khartoum State Water Corporation has announced that several of its Nile stations have gone out of service due to a sudden decline of the Nile’s waters.According to the Sudanese News Agency the corporation’s Directo …
“ኣብ ጉዳይ ኢትዮጵያ ዝምልከት፡ ቲፎዝንት ገዲፍና፡ ምስ ሓቕን ፍትሕን ደው ክንብል ኣሎና”
Fanus Network | 18 juli 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9AoCeG-NVo
Rwanda extracts methane from Lake Kivu for electricity. How it works
Natacha Tofield-Pasche | July 14, 2020 | The Conversation Methane gas extraction on Lake Kivu. Photo by Eric LAFFORGUE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Lake Kivu lies on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. It’s almost the si …
Black lives must matter in Africa too
Audrey Donkor |19 Jul 2020 | Mail & Guardian Alexis kneels with his baby at a protest in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in Dakar on June 9, 2020. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP) he solidarity between Africans and their kin across the …
The orchestrators of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in Yemen
Cameron Joseph|12 Jul 2020 | Mail & Guardian Humanitarian crisis: Water is heavily rationed to Yemenis who have been displaced by the war in the country. It is only available during one-hour windows. Viewing the Yemeni civil war as a yet another ex …
‘My son died the worst kind of death’: Horrific details of violent unrest in Ethiopia
Zecharias Zelalem |14 Jul 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 …
Sudan PM Abdalla Hamdok replaces ministers in sweeping reshuffle
The reshuffle follows protests urging faster reforms and greater civilian rule in Sudan’s transition towards democracy. 9 Jul 2020 | Aljazeera Hamdok recently promised to take a number of major decisions, without giving details [Hannibal Hanschke/Reute …
Egypt declines Ethiopia’s suggestion to discuss contentious GERD points later
July 11, 2020 | Egypt Independent The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Egypt has rejected Ethiopia’s suggestion that the points of disagreement with Egypt and Sudan on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam should be decided on later. For the eighth day in …
Why it’s important to know how fluids move
Justin Pringle |July 9, 2020 | The Conversation Knowing how fluids move can help us understand virus transmission better. Stock image/Getty Images COVID-19 has sharply brought into focus the impact of respiratory infectious diseases on humanity. It has …
Donald Trump’s African diplomacy falls flat with little headway in Nile dam dispute
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi asked the US to intervene in Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam disagreement ANTONY SGUAZZIN | 10 July 2020 | Business Day Picture: 123RTF/EWASTUDIO US President Donald Trump’s biggest foray into African affairs has …
Two arrested over killing of popular political singer in Ethiopia
Death of Haacaaluu Hundeessaa triggered protests last week that killed 166 people Reuters in Addis Ababa |Fri 10 Jul 2020 | The Guardian Protesters in London demand justice for Haacaaluu Hundeessaa. Photograph: Thabo Jaiyesimi/Sopa/Rex/Shutterstock Eth …
A Bird? A Plane? No, It’s a Google Balloon Beaming the Internet
A commercial deal in Kenya marks the first application of balloon-powered internet in Africa, the region with the lowest percentage of internet users globally. Abdi Latif Dahir | July 7, 2020 | The New York Times A Loon internet balloon, carrying solar …
A Bird? A Plane? No, It’s a Google Balloon Beaming the Internet
A commercial deal in Kenya marks the first application of balloon-powered internet in Africa, the region with the lowest percentage of internet users globally. A Loon internet balloon, carrying solar-powered mobile networking equipment over the company …
Egypt says Ethiopia’s unilateral filling of GERD contradicts negotiations
Al-Masry Al-Youm | July 8, 2020 | Egypt Independent Egypt’s Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources on Tuesday criticized Ethiopia’s recent move to begin filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), saying it contradicts the current path of n …
Unfollow the leader: The Twitter campaign against Zimbabwe’s president
Kudzai Mashininga | 8 Jul 2020 | Mail & Guardian Supporters of Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa celebrate in Mbare, Harare, on August 3, 2018. (Photo by Marco Longari/AFP) Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa had 565 000 followers …
Why protesters are fed up with Sudan’s tricky transition
David E Kiwuwa |July 7, 2020 | The Conversation A Sudanese demonstrator at a protest in the capital Khartoum. Ashraf Shazily/AFP via Getty Images In the last few days, tens of thousands of people have, once again, taken to the streets of Suda …
Naked protest: how ordinary citizens reveal truth to repressive regimes
Rebecca Tapscott |May 14, 2020 | The Conversation Ugandan activist and writer Stella Nyanzi outside a Kampala court after a ruling in her favour against President Yoweri Museveni Sumy Sadurni/AFP via GettyImages The past two decades have seen the rise …
How Uganda is failing to help rural children learn languages
Medadi Ssentanda and Allen Asiimwe |June 2, 2020 | The Conversation Children make their way to school in Fort Portal, Uganda. Shutterstock The government of Uganda introduced the mother tongue education programme with hope of improving literacy levels …
Why drought programmes in Ethiopia should support communal access to groundwater
Donald John MacAllister. Alan MacDonald. Seifu Kebede Gurmessa | May 26, 2020 | The Conversation A communal hand pump in Ethiopia. Unicef Ethiopia/Flickr Like many countries in east Africa, Ethiopia is highly vulnerable to drought. Since 1965, Ethiopia …
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