Development

Gov’t converts donated salary into bond | Ethiopia

Highlight: Gov't decides to convert salary contributions into a saving bond. Amount raised from Civil Servants estimated about 2 Billion…

Egypt: The Tripartite committee on Renaissance dam to meet this month

It is to be recalled that PM Minister Meles Zenawi promised the Egyptian public diplomacy delegation in April that a…

Anti Gibe III activist opposes Renaissance dam | Ethiopia

International Rivers said, on its website, today, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance dam 'will flood 1,680 square kilometers of forest in…

Collectivism: Raising funds for Renaissance dam | Ethiopia

Chatting with me about the ongoing public fundraising for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance dam, a westerner acquaintance of mine said,…

Reality-check: Renaissance dam a fraud? | Ethiopia

There is no explicit reference to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam  in the 5-year Growth and Transformation Plan(GTP), the opposition…

USD 300 mln for one route of Ethiopia’s new railway

India pledged 300 million USD for the construction of the new Ethiopian railway. The announcement was made on May 25…

‘the dam won’t be delayed even for a single minute’: Meles Zenawi

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi yesterday reaffirmed his government's position to delay the ratification of the Cooperative Framework Agreement of the…

Egypt agrees to the new dam, to buy electricity from Ethiopia

Egyptian Prime Minister had been on an official visit in Addis on Thursday and Friday. The Egyptian news outlet Almasry…

Ethiopia won’t freez the dam, nor re-negotiate the CFA | Government statement [full text]

Ethiopia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs weekly press release, 'A week in the Horn', cautioned against 'reading too much into' Prime…

Meles Zenawi’s maneuver: will Egypt fall for it?

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi thrilled the Egyptian delegation on Monday. But his proposal sounds much more like a maneuver rather than a…

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