The Minister of Water and Energy, Dr. Eng. Habtamu Itefa, received today the Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Ethiopia Sami Jamil Abdullah at his office. According to Minister of Water and Energy the two have agreed to work together on water and energy. Saudi Arabia Ambassador to Ethiopia, on his part expressed his country’s keenness […]
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Ethiopia: Sweeping emergency powers and alarming rise in online hate speech as Tigray conflict escalates
Ethiopia is teetering on the brink of a human rights and humanitarian catastrophe, Amnesty International warned today, amid worrying developments linked to the escalating Tigray conflict. On 4 November the Ethiopian government granted itself sweeping new emergency powers which arbitrarily restrict human rights and threaten the independence of the judiciary. Meanwhile there has been an […]
US Sanctions Individuals, Firms for Supporting Iran’s Drone Program
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned individuals and companies allegedly associated with a network of companies linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The department said in a statement Friday that the targets “provided critical support” to Tehran’s drone program. It said they helped spread Iranian drones to “Hezbollah, Hamas, Kata’ib Hizballah, the Houthis, and […]
Russia Warns Turkey After Ukraine Drone Strike
ISTANBUL — Russia is warning Turkey over arms sales to Ukraine after a Turkish-made drone attacked Russian-backed rebels in Ukraine. A Kremlin spokesman has warned that Turkey’s ongoing arms sales to Ukraine threaten to destabilize the region. The warning follows Kyiv’s release of the video Tuesday showing a Turkish-made drone used for the first time […]
How to turn confrontation about Africa’s biggest hydropower dam to cooperation
Since Ethiopia announced the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2011, there have been disagreements between Egypt and Ethiopia on the filling and operation of the dam. With turbines of about 5100 MW it has more than two times the energy generating power of the nearest major hydropower dam – the High Aswan Dam […]
NASA to Launch Craft to Explore Jupiter’s Asteroids
The U.S. space agency, NASA, is preparing to launch a craft Saturday to boldly go to a part of space never visited before — the asteroids of Jupiter. The spacecraft Lucy is set to take off before dawn Saturday from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It is embarking on a 12-year mission during which it will travel more than […]