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April 2021

Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister has spoken out against a 1959 treaty between Egypt and Sudan dividing Nile water

Amr Salahi April 17,201 The two downstream countries of ‘monopolizing’ the Nile as negotiations stall. Ethiopian Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Demeke Mekonnen, has said that Ethiopia “cannot and will not agree” to recognize Egyptian and Sudanese claims to Nile water made under a 1959 treaty between the two countries. Speaking at an online […]

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Institutionalized Tribalism: Ethiopia’s Constitution and Ethnic Federalist Government Increase the Risk of Instability in Ethiopia

Obang Metho April 16, 2021 Institutionalized tribalism, in its worst form, was officially adopted under the deceptive name of Ethnic Federalism, 30 years ago, under the former government led by the Tigrayan Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF). It was a way to placate some ethnic groups; however, the result of it is now threatening our survival

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Ethnic nationalism on a collision course with Ethiopia more than ever

Shiferaw Abebe April 15, 2021 Ethiopia is at critical juncture. The country’s sovereignty is being tested by the west through economic and diplomatic coercion while Egypt and Sudan keep vowing and doing everything they can to stop the second filling of the GERD scheduled to take place in less than 3 months. The external threat,

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“Ethiopia Shall Never Use ‘Our River’!” Egypt’s idiotic Motto

Ambachew Dejene (ma74085@gmail.com) Perhaps due to other burning issues in our home politics, I never wrote anything about the Nile whose origin and the lion’s share of its content are attributed to my nation, Ethiopia. There is a good saying by an English poet, Lord Byron, “Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.”

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The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) on Gender and Disability in Africa

The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) Permanent Committee on Gender, Family, Youth and People with Disability has convened virtually to conduct an assessment on the formulation of a Gender Parity Model Law. The Committee was also briefed on the status of the African Model Law on Disability adopted by the PAP Plenary in October 2019. In March

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