Development | Horn Affairs

Indians to manage Ethiopia’s electric utility

(Hadra Ahmed) Ethiopia is to outsource the management of the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) to Power Grid Corporation of…

Wednesday, October 30, 2013 @ 11:30 pm

(By Cecilia Bäcklander) When Meles Zenawi died a year ago, many people hoped for a liberalization of state control in…

Tuesday, October 15, 2013 @ 1:27 am

(By John Daly) On 27 September Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Michael Debretsion announced the…

Thursday, October 10, 2013 @ 1:37 am

(Peter Schwartzstein) “Ethiopia is killing us,” taxi driver Ahmed Hossam said, as he picked his way through Cairo’s notoriously traffic-clogged…

Monday, September 30, 2013 @ 12:56 am

In a rare defiance of Egyptian pressure, to which Sudanese scholars acquiesced to for decades, a renowned legal scholar wrote…

Thursday, September 26, 2013 @ 9:09 pm

Ato Ayele Wondwossen, Head of the Ethio-Djibouti Railway Organization had told members of the press that maintenance of the old…

Saturday, September 7, 2013 @ 1:32 am

(by Richard Warnica) The Nile defines Egypt, perhaps even more than the pyramids do. For thousands of years, the river…

Friday, August 30, 2013 @ 5:51 pm

Editor's note (Daniel): American and European media often favor Egypt in their reports of the Nile waters issue. When they do…

Monday, August 26, 2013 @ 8:04 pm

Sudan Daily Vision reported today that: The Minister of Water Resources and Electricity, Osama Abdallah, Tuesday briefed the National Assembly…

Saturday, June 29, 2013 @ 11:10 pm

(PesaTimes) Government has decided to award the EPC contract of the construction of the 600MW Karuma Hydropower Plant (HPP) and…

Thursday, June 20, 2013 @ 9:27 pm