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Ethiopia – Egypt : Is a War Over the Nile Still Imminent?

Until the recent positive signs of cooperation between some of the Nile riparian states, disputes between the downstream and upper riparian states over rights to the waters of the Nile have been a contentious issue for centuries. The outcome of the Nile water negotiations could have profound consequences for the region and the African continent. [...]

October 23, 2012No CommentRead More

Egypt Threatening Ethiopia Over Nile Dam Construction

October 22, 2012 No Comment

Egypt increasingly views Ethiopia’s plan to build a massive 6,000-megawatt hydroelectric dam on the Nile River as a threat to its national security because it claims it will seriously cut the country’s water supplies. Egypt depends on the Nile for virtually all of its water and is mounting a major diplomatic and economic campaign to [...]

Egypt Is Prepared To Bomb All Of Ethiopia’s Nile Dams

October 15, 2012 No Comment

In 2010 Egypt discussed taking military action in cooperation with Sudan against Ethiopia’s Nile dams to protect their stake in the Nile River, according to internal emails from the U.S. private-security firm Stratfor. Egypt and Sudan currently receive 90 percent of the river’s water under colonial-era accords while upstream countries including Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia have been clamoring [...]

Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan Set up Commission to Assess Nile Dam Project

October 5, 2012 No Comment

A tripartite commission, established by Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan will meet on 8 October 2012 in Addis Ababa to discuss the impact of Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam on the three other countries. Ethiopia is building the $5 billion Nile dam, but other countries upstream of the river fear this could have an impact on water levels. [...]

South Africa Launches Metals Atomisation Project

October 3, 2012 No Comment

South Africa’s Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu has launched state mineral research company Mintek’s new R44-million water atomising plant. The demonstration plant, situated at Mintek’s Randburg, Johannesburg campus, will initially be used for a two-year, R200-million research and development project with mining company Anglo American Platinum. The project will explore and develop atomisation technology as [...]

Haiti Faces New Tragedy as Tropical Storm Isaac Approaches

August 24, 2012 No Comment

Haiti hunkered down Friday as forecasters warned that Tropical Storm Isaac could dump large amounts of rain on the struggling country still recovering from a killer earthquake. Packing maximum sustained winds of 75 kilometers (45 miles) per hour, Isaac was centered some 265 kilometers south of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic at 0900 GMT, [...]

Life On a South African Mine, Decades of Squalor

August 20, 2012 No Comment

From scrawny dogs wandering shanties to pit toilets, workers at South Africa’s tragedy-hit Marikana platinum mine still live in miserable conditions 18 years after the end of apartheid. The police shooting which killed 34 mine workers on Thursday has not only highlighted the brutality faced by the workers, but has also put the spotlight on [...]

UN Boost Efforts to Tackle ‘Alarming’ Health Situation Among Sudanese Refugees in S.S.

August 3, 2012 No Comment

The United Nations refugee agency and its partners are scaling up efforts to reverse the “alarming” rates of malnutrition, disease and death in two camps hosting Sudanese refugees in South Sudan, even as they struggle to cope with logistical problems amid the rainy season. There are some 170,000 Sudanese refugees currently in South Sudan, according [...]