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