Energy

Ethiopia: A lot of hot air over gas

(Kaleyesus Bekele) Part of Ethiopia's geology resembles the oil and gas fields of the Middle East and, indeed, natural gas…

Ethiopia: Reykjavik to build Africa’s largest geothermal plant

Following earlier news on the planned Corbetti project in Ethiopia, Reykjavik Geothermal now reports having signed a 25 year PPA…

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…

Ethiopia to build Africa’s largest geothermal plant

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

Chinese to build Uganda’s new dam on Nile

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

Nile| Museveni: Africa won’t let Egyptians bully Ethiopia

(Giles Muhame) President Yoweri Museveni has sternly warned the Egyptian “government and other groups” against making “chauvinist and irrational statements”…

Somalia’s Oil Politics and Complex Web of Intersts

(Katrina Manson) After an absence of more than 30 years, Abdirizak Omar Mohamed has returned to Somalia, the country of…

Nile| Shinn: America will intervene if tensions escalate to conflict

Highlights: * "If [the Muslim Brotherhood] decides to pursue an ideological policy, including the exportation to other countries of fundamentalist…

Egypt to import electricity from Saudi-Arabia

Saudi Arabia says plans to connect electricity lines with Egypt are moving forward as part of efforts to ease chronic…

Renaissance Dam to start "pre-generation work" by mid-2014

The Metal and Engineering Corporation said on Wednesday the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is expected to start pre-generation work in…

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