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Ethiopia

Agreement on mega dam foundering in the nile waters

Tension between Cairo and Addis Ababa over water access quotas are whittling down the prospect that an agreement on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam could be signed on 28 December.

Subscribers only Politics Running story - The Renaissance Dam 18.12.2015

Oromia ablaze and bad blood within the EPRDF

The proposal by the leaders of OPDO, the ruling party in ONRS (southern Ethiopia) to bring an end to the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.12.2015

Will Israel Chemicals lose its potash franchise?

Israel Chemicals (ICL) has gone out into the cold with its Danakil project to work potash. The Ethiopian mining, oil [...]

Subscribers only Business 18.12.2015

The Muslims are worried

The hand grenade attack on Anwar mosque on 11 December [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.12.2015

Ethiopian Electric Power looking for private investors

Beset with problems to finance the full range of its [...]

Subscribers only Business 18.12.2015

Addis turns its hand to producing gold

With Kefi Minerals in the final phase of raising money for the Tulu Kapi mine, Ethiopia’s first-ever industrial gold operation, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.12.2015

Renewed tension in Oromia

Since late November, demonstrations by students and schoolchildren have been held in several towns in Oromo National Regional State (ONRS) [...]

Free access Politics 04.12.2015

Brewers don’t want to see it through to the bitter end

The head of Brivio Trading, Negussie Hailu Abera, recently sold its distribution activity so as to generate cash to pay [...]

Subscribers only Business 04.12.2015

Growing tension between Nairobi and Addis Ababa

The Kenyan cabinet secretaries for the interior, Joseph Nkaissery, and [...]

Subscribers only Politics 04.12.2015

Spotlight | Document
Desalegn’s secret plan for economic development

The Indian Ocean Newsletter has obtained a copy of the Second Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP II), a five year economic development plan ordered by the government of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn (click here). In it, the plan’s author, the [.

Subscribers only Politics 20.11.2015

Rx Africa’s shareholders take their partners to court

Margaret Chassman has taken a case of embezzlement in creating an Addis Ababa pharmaceutics company to the New York courts.

Subscribers only Business 20.11.2015

With Seyum Awal, the TPLF takes control of the Afar party ANDP

The bureau head of security, justice and administration of the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 20.11.2015

Chinese service companies reap any number of contracts

Hilong Holding is one of the umpteenth Chinese oil services groups that have set up shop in the country: its [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.11.2015

Maersk bets the farm on East Africa

Denmark’s Maersk Group is about to have its affiliate Maersk [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.11.2015

Addis Ababa dismantles an Islamic State cell

In view of the tensions between central government and the Muslim community (ION 1413), the prosecutor Tedros Bahro received a [...]