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Water Scarcity And Conflict At The Ethiopia-Kenya Border
March 10th, 2013
Via The Sojourner Project, an article on how water shortages are contributing to tribal clashes along the Kenyan-Ethiopian border: Water shortages at the Kenyan-Ethiopian border are contributing to tribal clashes-specifically between the Kenyan Turkana and the Ethiopian tribes Dassanech, Nyangatom and Mursi. The Horn of Africa as been called a hot spot of climate change- subject […]
Read more »Who Owns The Nile? Egypt, Sudan, And Ethiopia’s History-Changing Dam
February 22nd, 2013
Courtesy of Origins, an article on arguments over control of the Nile: Emperor Haile Selassie was offended by President Nasser’s exclusion of Ethiopia in the Nile Waters Agreement and in planning for building the Aswan Dam. He negotiated the 1959 divorce of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church from the Orthodox Church in Alexandria, ending 1600 years […]
Read more »The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam And The Blue Nile: Implications For Transboundary Water Governance
February 18th, 2013
Via the Global Water Forum, a report on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Blue Nile: In 2011, the Ethiopian Government announced plans to construct a hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile, 45km east of its border with Sudan, which has been named the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. This ambitious project is planned to […]
Read more »Water Grabbers: A Global Rush On Freshwater And Saudi Arabia’s Great Thirst; The Kingdom Stakes A Claim On The Nile
January 12th, 2013
Via National Geographic, an interesting look at Saudi Arabia’s efforts to utilize part of the Nile’s water: Papyrus reed boats cross the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia, where some people claim their water is being handed over to Saudi business interests. The cows appear on the horizon like a mirage. Drive about a hundred miles […]
Read more »Ethiopian Dam Threatens To Destroy Indigenous Livelihoods And The World’s Largest Desert Lake
January 11th, 2013
Via National Geographic, a report on Ethiopia’s Gibe III dam: Over the last century, the construction of big dams to generate power, supply water and control floods has unleashed a damaging cascade of social and environmental consequences – including the destruction of fisheries, subsistence farmlands, homes and communities. More than 470 million people around the […]
Read more »Egyptian Mega Projects on the Nile: Repercussions and Implications to Ethiopia
January 3rd, 2013
Via The Ethiopia Times, an interesting article on potential implications of Ethiopian projects on the Nile: Recently I came across one commentary by an Egyptian management consultant by the name Ms. Rania Al-Maghraby (PM World Journal, Vol. I, Issue III-October 2012). With a candid English and pleasant conceptual flow, she mentioned some of the Mega […]
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