July 20
Ethiopia: Administrative Vacuum Exposes Majang Forest Reserve to Wide Axes
The Majang Forest Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO recognized and protected forest in the Gambella Regional State, has fallen victim to an onslaught of illicit trade operations turning… Read more »
May 11
East Africa: Flooding Poses Serious Threat in Nine Regional States As Climate Fluctuations Take Toll On East Africa
Aid agencies warn close to two million Ethiopians at risk Read more »
March 16
Ethiopia: AI and Climate - Tackling Challenges and Embracing Change With a People-Centered Approach
In May 2023, a World Bank team visited Secunda, a South African town defined by Sasol's unique commercial coal-to-liquids facility, to participate in a workshop on just green… Read more »
Africa: Infectious Diseases Fester in Wake of Drought, War - UN Report
A UN agency signals a worrying uptick in the spread of infectious diseases as "successive shocks" expose thousands of people across the country to measles, cholera, and malaria. Read more »
March 02
Ethiopia: The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and Its Discontents
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile River in the Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia has created tensions between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan, which are… Read more »
February 27
Africa: Impact of Red Sea Crisis On Africa - Red Flag or Red Herring?
Still reeling from the effects of COVID-19 and the Ukraine war, African countries face yet another geopolitical hurdle with the Red Sea crisis and its potentially significant… Read more »
February 03
Ethiopia: From Desolation to Revival
How clean water ignites a renaissance in rural Ethiopia. Read more »
East Africa: Ethiopia's Red Sea Gambit Raises Tensions in Horn of Africa
Ethiopia, a landlocked country of over 120 million people, is facing increased geopolitical tensions due to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's recent "Red Sea Gambit". Abiy's strategic… Read more »
December 30, 2023
Ethiopia: To Sea, or Not to Sea
The last few months have been eventful, to say the least, for the shores of the Red Sea. Sudan, which holds a 750 kilometer coast on the Sea, has been embroiled in a deadly civil… Read more »
Ethiopia: The Brewing Red Sea Storm
In the centuries and thousands of years before the advent of European civilization, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean and its chokepoints always played pivotal roles in linking the… Read more »
December 23, 2023
Africa: Uncertainty Reigns As Fourth Round GERD Talks Fail
The fourth round of trilateral negotiations involving Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) ended this week in Addis Ababa, without an… Read more »
October 14, 2023
Ethiopia: Drought Deepens Ethiopia's Wounds of Conflict
Beyeda, a woreda in the Northern Gondar zone, stands as one among several areas in the Amhara Regional State that have been devastated by the two-year war in Northern Ethiopia,… Read more »
October 28, 2023
Ethiopia: Zay Ethnic Group In Danger of Vanishing From Oromia Region
Islands identity hangs in the balance Read more »
October 07, 2023
Egypt: GERD Tensions Flare Again as Ethiopia, Egypt Trade Letters at UN Security Council
Fourth filling of Ethiopia's dam sparks new row with Egypt Read more »
September 02, 2023
Ethiopia: GERD Talks End in Stalemate
The latest round of talks since December 2022 between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) held in Cairo ended at the beginning of this week… Read more »
July 29, 2023
Ethiopia: Who Scales Up Response to Contain Cholera Outbreak
The World Health Organization (WHO) has responded swiftly to a cholera outbreak in Konso Zone and Alle Special Woreda of Ethiopia's Southern Nations region by establishing Cholera… Read more »
July 01, 2023
Ethiopia: Taxpayers Foot Bill for Dams Delivering Drop in the Bucket
Ethiopia's expensive irrigation drive has been hobbled by "glaring flaws" that could render its multi-billion birr hydropower projects wasteful or ineffective, according to the… Read more »
Ethiopia: Over-Budget Tigray Dam Construction to Restart After War Interruption
The construction of the Zarema Mayday irrigation dam, which was interrupted during the two-year war in Ethiopia's north, will resume next year, according to the Ministry of… Read more »
Ethiopia: Govt Efforts to Reduce Fluoride Content In Water Unsuccessful
The Ethiopian government's efforts to reduce the amount of fluoride in water consumed by millions of Ethiopians have proven unsuccessful, according to a report by the Federal… Read more »
June 03, 2023
Ethiopia: Ethiopia's Water Diplomacy - Resolving Transboundary Issues
In the past, water management was localized and traditional. As settlements grew into cities, the need for new water sources, storage, canals, and cisterns expanded water… Read more »
January 28, 2023
Sudan: Sudan Backs Ethiopia's Dam
Sudan has now returned to its prior position, expressing its full support for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. It's a dramatic shift from when Sudan sided with Egypt to oppose… Read more »
November 19, 2022
Ethiopia: No Respite for Low Income Residents, Sanitation Woes Escalate
In a run down and dusty section of Addis Ababa - far from its skyscrapers that have defined its progress for the last decade - is a suburb known as 'Autobis Tera', near Merkatto,… Read more »
October 22, 2022
Ethiopia: COP27 Brings GERD Debate Back to the Table
Egypt still eyes legally binding agreement Read more »
August 19, 2006
Ethiopia: Millions Still Face Drought Hardship
The rains may have eased a severe drought across east Africa this year, but millions still face hardship and it will take herders years to recover from the decimation of their… Read more »