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Ethiopia: Al-Amoudi pledges 1.5 Billion Br. for Renaissance dam

Ethiopian born Sauidi Billionaire, Mohammed Al-Amoudi, pledged to contribute 1.5 Billion Birr(about USD 88 mln) to the Ethiopian Grand Renaissance…

Monday, September 12, 2011 @ 3:07 am

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

Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 10:34 pm

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

Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 2:28 am

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

Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 4:53 pm

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

Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 6:31 am

Ethiopia plans to build four more hydroelectric dams on the Nile river. This is in addition to recently launched Grand…

Friday, July 1, 2011 @ 11:53 pm

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

Friday, July 1, 2011 @ 7:35 pm

There are only two documents that attempt to deal with the relationship of Ethiopia and the lower riparian countries with…

Wednesday, June 8, 2011 @ 1:03 am

Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of State is to conduct a review concerning the the recently…

Monday, June 6, 2011 @ 7:38 pm

Pope Shenouda III, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark Episcopate, received a telephone call from Patriarch Abune Paulos…

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 @ 3:40 am