Ethiopia – PROSPECT

Waiting to Die of Thirst: Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan, and the GERD

Photo Credit: Olof von Gawinski By Michael KeeneStaff Writer In northeast Africa, a tragedy of epic proportions has been playing out for decades. Ethiopia’s ongoing construction of a massive $4.5 billion dam over the Nile River’s largest tributary has led to an increasingly volatile East African environment, in which old colonial practices, climate change, and…

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May 19, 2023

AFRICA, BLOG, ENVIRONMENT, Global South, HISTORY, POLICY PROPOSAL, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Construction, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nile, Northeast Africa, Sudan

A Peacemaker, Who Might Oversee the Collapse of His Own Country

Abiy Ahmed, the Prime Minister of Ethopia, achieved international recognition in 2019 for brokering a peace deal with Eritrea and winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Now, he faces new political opponents, challenging the stability he was praised to have won.

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January 10, 2020

AFRICA, FEATURED, HISTORY, HUMAN RIGHTS, MILITARY, POLITICS

Ethiopia, humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize, Peace, warfare