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Africa’s Aral Sea?
May 7th, 2017
Via Yahoo!, a report on the tensions arising over Ethiopia’s Gibe III dam’s impact on Lake Turkana: The beach looks ready for war: in the sparse lakeshore shade hundreds wait, sweaty from the heat, weapons at their feet. In Kenya’s hot, dry and lawless north even the fishermen are armed, but guns will not save […]
Read more »Climate Change Will Likely Worsen Tension Over Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
May 6th, 2017
Via E&E News, a look at the role that climate change could have in fostering increased water conflict in Africa: Climate change could play a role in exacerbating water conflict in Africa, likely worsening geopolitical wrangling over issues like the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The dam, a 6,450-megawatt hydropower project that’s nearing completion just miles […]
Read more »The Ethiopian Boomtown That Welcomes Water Firms But Leaves Locals Thirsty
March 9th, 2017
Courtesy of The Guardian, a report on the Sululta district of Ethiopia’s Oromia region where business is burgeoning but, despite abundant rainfall, half the population has no access to fresh water: Towards the end of the day at the Abyssinia Springs bottled water factory near Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, workers hose down the car park […]
Read more »East Africa: Museveni – There Is No Reason for Conflict Over River Nile
March 7th, 2017
Courtesy of AllAfrica, a report on Uganda’s view on the simmering Nile conflict: President Yoweri Museveni has said Uganda has not yet ratified the “Nile Agreement” on the use of the River Nile waters, as it is pursuing a maximum consensus on the issue. He said the disagreement between Egypt and other nations on the […]
Read more »A River Runs Through an African Rivalry
January 3rd, 2017
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of the dispute over the Ethiopian Grand Renaissance Dam which is only the most recent expression of a longstanding conflict over the Nile: Forecast The competition to secure water from the Nile River will create problems for Egypt and Ethiopia, much as it has for centuries. The countries will, […]
Read more »Can Egypt And Ethiopia Share The Nile River?
February 29th, 2016
Via The Japan Times, commentary on the Nile River: Oil is the Middle East’s glamor product, sought after by the entire world and bringing the region wealth beyond the dreams of avarice. But water is the mundane resource that matters even more to locals for, without it, they face the horrible choice of leaving their […]
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