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NBI proposes largest hydroelectric dam project in Ethiopia
Addis Ababa, January 6 (WIC) - The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) has proposed the largest hydroelectric dam which is expected to serve Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt. According to BiofuelsWatch.com, the Ethiopian government has plans to establish the dam on the Blue Nile River off Bure town on the road that leads to Nekemt at Bako-Ambo area, located in the Oromia State.
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Horn politics particularly that which affects Nile basin countries is entering in to a new phase. It seems gone are the days when Egypt single handily decides the fate of any project in and around the Nile River. Not sure if the latest desire of Egypt to invest in Ethiopia, particularly in Bahr Dar and Afar, is based on business opportunity and nothing else, nevertheless, regardless of Egypt's intention Ethiopia is becoming a country to be reckoned with. While the Egyptian prime minister was visiting Ethiopia, the country announced a plan to build a huge dam on the Abay/Nile River. Perhaps Egypt and Sudan have realized the new order in the Horn and have decided to go along with the new Nile Basin Agreement that is good for all before it is too late.
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Egypt to Grow Crops in Ethiopia
January 5, 2010 – (ethjournal.com)-Eritrean president, Isaias Afeworki said that intelligence agencies of the United States were the main instigators of the 1998-2000 Ethiopia-Eritrea border war which claimed the lives of 70,000 people.
In an interview with the state-run TV the President on Sunday said that CIA mainly aimed at creating a crisis situation in Africa and exposes its people to animosity among one another, and thus plunders the resources of the continent, besides imposing one’s narrow interests....
Do you wonder why Isaias Afeworki always blames the CIA? Sometimes we wonder if he is talking as an insider! Did he work with them before and knows how CIA works or is he simply blubbering...kab aqli chinqet! (11th hour panic)
Azeb lauds FGM, HIV/AIDS prevention activities in Afar state
Azeb Mesfin Addis Ababa, January 4 (WIC) – The Founder and Board Chairperson of the National Coalition for Women against HIV/AIDS, First Lady Azeb Mesfin, lauded the successful endeavors carried out to eradicate Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and prevent HIV/AIDS in Afar state.
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the slogan that mobilized the people to rise up and take arms and defeat the enemy was “be tsiferena..!” It means with our own hands and fingers! Today with Derge gone and a new federal Ethiopia in place, the enemy the public is raising its arms once more again is against poverty. The new slogan is “yichalal”....
