By William Davison

Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan agreed to conduct further studies on what impact a hydropower dam on the main tributary of the Nile River will have on downstream countries, Egyptian Foreign…

WONDIYE FIKRE INDELBU, Ethiopia’s first Paralympics medallist, won yesterday’s Newton Aycliffe 10k road race after finishing the race without a shoe.

Indelbu, who took silver at London in the T46 1500m, kicked off his shoe with 7k remaining in the race after his lace came undone.

The…

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A United Nations peacekeeper was killed on Friday in Sudan's main oil region when shells struck a United Nations logistics base, a U.N. spokesman said.

The slain peacekeeper was from Ethiopia, U.N. spokesman Kieran Dwyer said, adding that two other Ethiopian peacekeepers were injured in…

A star of Ethiopia shines anew

Kylie Northover

After leaving Ethiopia and her music career, Bitsat Seyoum has found her voice again with the help of the Emerge Festival. Photo: Luis Enrique Ascui

With headlines increasingly dominated by disheartening stories about asylum seekers,…

The Malawi Police Service has arrested 27 Ethiopians after intercepting them in two hired Minibuses that had used uncharted routes to avoid Police checkpoints at Dunduzu and Samikwa in Mzuzu.

Armed Police blocked the vehicles’ entry into the M1 road to Lilongwe at a place called Kadikechi but the Drivers of the two 16 seater…

Foreign Minister Dr. Tedros Adhanom met today (June 11th) with Mr. Olof Skoug, Permanent Chair of the EU Peace and Security Committee for discussions on regional issues. Mr. Skoug Olaf congratulated Ethiopia on the successful hosting of the 50th anniversary of the OAU/AU.

He explained to Dr. Tedros that the EU…

Laurent de Saint Périer

Sabotage, corruption and intimidation to hamper the construction of Ethiopia's hydroelectric dam were brought to fore as Egypt weighed its options during a crisis meeting... on television.

But Ethiopia won't be intimidated.

Ethiopia evoked the wrath of the powers that-be in…

Ethiopian striker Fikru Tefera Lemessa says that South Africa's hopes of qualifying for the 2014 World Cup finals will come crashing down this weekend when the two Group A leaders face up against each other in Addis Ababa.

Fikru – who plays for Free State Stars – says there is absolutely no way Bafana will win in…

Chapman University Law School Dean Tom Campbell

New York (TADIAS) – In the late 1990s, long before the Egyptian cabinet got caught on live television discussing to sabotage Ethiopia’s $4.7 billion Grand Renaissance hydroelectric dam project, a law professor and his students at Stanford University were quietly…

Posted by Ziad Khalifeh

A long-standing controversy over who has rights to the waters of the Nile, which has been simmering for decades in regional hydro-politics and controversy, is boiling again because of global politics, superpower agendas, and the local politics of an awakening and very…

Egypt irrigation minister hints at covert response to Ethiopia dam project

Egyptian Irrigation Minister Mohamed Bahaa El-Din says that the government will not give up one drop of Egypt's water quota, adding that Egypt is already suffering a yearly water deficit equivalent to LE7 billion

Ahram…

recently Egyptian politician are  giving some bad news on our dam 

Egyptian politicians - including president Mohamed Morsi - have been caught live on air discussing plans to sabotage an Ethiopian dam project.

Ethiopia has begun diverting the Blue Nile, a major tributary to the Nile River, 500 metres from its natural course to construct a $4.7 billion hydroelectric project…

Egypt and Sudan were holding talks on Wednesday following a decision by Ethiopia to divert the Blue Nile as part of a giant dam project which risks affecting the two downstream Arab states.

Sudan’s minister of irrigation, Osama Abdallah al-Hassan, arrived in Cairo for a one-day visit to discuss the issue…

By: Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN

(CNN) -- On a rainy afternoon this spring when President Barack Obama gave the commencement speech at Morehouse College in Atlanta, he called valedictorian Betsegaw Tadele the "skinny guy with a funny name" -- a nickname Obama has often called himself.

So, who is that…

By William Davison , Bloomberg

Ethiopia will receive $1 billion in funding from the Brazilian Development Bank to build a section of a railway that will be extended to connect to neighboring South Sudan, a Foreign Ministry official said.

Andrade Gutierrez Participacoes SA of Brazil will build the link…

Kai is telling about studying Business Administration at The University of Southern Denmark in Sønderborg and what it is like to study at a university.



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North Texas family takes higher education to a new level

by JASON WHEELER

WFAA

UNIVERSITY PARK — At an SMU commencement ceremony this weekend, Roza Essaw looked and sounded like a typical graduate.

"I just graduated. It’s exciting! It’s a wonderful feeling!" she said.

But her story is…

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Scholarships

While most international students in Australia are full-fee paying students, another option is to apply for a scholarship.

Scholarships are offered by the Australian Government, education institutions and a number of other…