Tens of thousands of protesters call for a regime change in Ethiopia
Tens of thousands of protesters have flooded the streets of Gonder in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia on Sunday demanding a change of government due to the unfair distribution of wealth in the country.
Dozens shot dead in anti-government protests across Ethiopia says opposition
Dozens of people were shot dead by security forces in protests across Ethiopia’s Oromiya and Amhara regions at the weekend, residents and opposition officials have said.
Etiopia: governo reprime nel sangue le proteste contro gli espropri, oltre 100 morti
Sarebbero oltre 100 le persone uccise dalle forze di sicurezza in Etiopia durante il fine settimana. I militari hanno aperto il fuoco sui manifestanti pacifici nelle regioni a maggioranza Oromo e Amhara, secondo quanto riferisce Amnesty International.
▻http://dirittiumani1.blogspot.ch/2016/08/etiopia-governo-reprime-nel-sangue-le.html
Éthiopie : la #répression brutale des manifestations fait des dizaines de morts
Au moins 97 personnes ont été tuées et des centaines blessées par les forces de sécurité éthiopiennes, qui ont tiré à balles réelles sur des manifestants pacifiques dans la région d’Oromia et dans des secteurs de la région Amhara les 6 et 7 août.
►http://www.amnesty.fr/Nos-campagnes/Crises-et-conflits-armes/Actualites/Ethiopie-la-repression-brutale-des-manifestations-fait-des-dizaines-de-morts
Ethiopia Grapples With The Aftermath Of A Deadly Weekend
The videos trickled out slowly on social media — slowly, because those posting them had to use special software to get around what seemed to be a government-imposed internet block.
Etiopia, massacro alla manifestazione: quasi 100 morti
Etiopia, massacro alla manifestazione: quasi 100 morti
„Le forze di sicurezza hanno aperto il fuoco contro proteste pacifiche nelle regioni di Oromia e di Amhara. Amnesty International denuncia la strage di innocenti“
▻http://www.today.it/mondo/97-morti-manifestazioni-etiopia.html
Ethiopie. Les limites de la main de fer
Depuis deux semaines, un mouvement de protestation sans précédent ébranle le pays. Sa répression aurait fait une centaine de morts, selon Amnesty International. Le modèle éthiopien, vanté pour ses résultats économiques, est à bout de souffle.
Ethiopie : la colère réprimée à huis clos
Verrouillage des pouvoirs, accaparement des terres, désespoir des jeunes… Le régime tente de museler les manifestations qui se multiplient depuis huit mois, au prix de centaines de morts.
Is Ethiopia unravelling?
On Sunday evening, the bars of Addis Ababa were doing their usual brisk business. Just 50 kilometres south of the Ethiopian capital, in the picturesque volcanic lake town of Bishoftu, more than 100 people lay dead.
▻http://www.irinnews.org/analysis/2016/10/03/ethiopia-unravelling
Unrest, riots, and stampedes as Ethiopians protest for land and political rights
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Crowds attacked and partially destroyed an Ethiopian factory run by Turkish textile firm Saygin Dima, its manager said, as a wave of protests about land and political rights raged on in the Oromiya region near the capital.
►http://www.businessinsider.com/unrest-riots-and-stampedes-as-ethiopians-protest-for-land-and-polit
Poster sur Facebook devient un crime sous l’#état_d'urgence en Ethiopie
Le régime d’Addis-Abeba réprime dans la violence la révolte de l’ethnie Oromo.
▻http://www.slateafrique.com/694493/facebook-etat-urgence-ethiopie
UNHCR cautions Sudan to stop deportation of Eritreans
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Thursday urged Sudan to stop the forced deportation of hundreds of Eritreans to their countries of origin.
▻http://www.africanews.com/2016/06/02/unhcr-cautions-sudan-to-stop-deportation-of-eritreans
#réfugiés_érythréens #Soudan #asile #migrations #réfugiés #renvois #push-back #refoulement
Sudan deports hundreds of Eritreans refugees : HRW
May 31, 2016 (ADDIS ABABA) – The Sudanese government last month has deported hundreds of Eritreans to their home country where they could suffer severe violations by an extremely repressive regime, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.
Sudan: Hundreds Deported to Likely Abuse
(Nairobi, May 30, 2016) – The Sudanese authorities deported at least 442 Eritreans, including six registered refugees, to Eritrea in May 2016, Human Rights Watch said today. Sudan denied the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) access to identify those who wanted to claim asylum and also denied the agency access to 64 Ethiopians still in detention who risk deportation.
►https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/05/30/sudan-hundreds-deported-likely-abuse
The #PanamaPapers are everywhere …
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/04/its-the-economy-no-8
And this week we’ll spend sometime talking about them. First up, however, we’ve got some nice things to say about a conference held in Addis Ababa (31 March-5 April). (1) The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), a progressive organization based in Addis and a favorite of ours, held its annual Africa Development Conference this past […]
Sans titre
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/04/95932
The #PanamaPapers are everywhere. And this week we spend sometime talking about them. First up, however, we’ve got some nice things to say about a conference held in Addis Ababa (31 March-5 April). (1) The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), a progressive organization based in Addis and a favorite of ours, held its annual Africa […]
Dispatches: Ethiopian Pastor Pays the Penalty for Speaking Out | Human Rights Watch
▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/03/15/dispatches-ethiopian-pastor-pays-penalty-speaking-out
▻https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/styles/open_graph/public/multimedia_images_2015/image002_copy_cropped.jpg?itok=tb-_FUA8
A year ago today, Ethiopian security forces arrested Pastor Omot Agwa and six colleagues at Addis Ababa’s Bole Airport and took them to the notorious Maekelawi police station, where torture is routine.
The arrest came several months after Omot, a respected activist from Ethiopia’s Gambella region, served as translator for the World Bank Inspection Panel. The panel investigated the Anuak indigenous people’s allegation that the Ethiopian government was committing widespread forced displacement and other serious human rights violations in relation to a World Bank project in Gambella.
It’s the economy stupid, N°3
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/02/its-the-economy-stupid-n3
On Twitter, T.O. Molefe announced that our new weekly series #ItsTheEconomyStupid is “My new favourite thing.” And you know, we love affirmation. So, here for T.O. and the rest of you is number 3. (1) This week we read the transcribed version of an incredible speech given by Alex De Waal in Addis Ababa. The speech […]
In Ethiopia, anger over corruption and farmland development runs deep | Global development | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jan/18/ethiopia-anger-over-corruption-farmland-development-runs-deep?CMP=share
“Losing the land would be a big problem for me, but if the government forces us, we can’t do anything,” the father-of-five says outside his compound.
Last month, Chamara, 45, saw the bodies of two protesters lying on the road after demonstrations rocked Chito. The dead were among up to 140 people killed by security forces during region-wide protests triggered by claims of injustice and marginalisation from the nation’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo.
Bolstered by US-based social media activists, the protest movement coalesced around opposition to a government plan to integrate the capital, Addis Ababa, with surrounding Oromo towns. After weeks of protests, the ruling coalition in the Oromia region said last week that it was cancelling the planned expansion.
Protests, however, go on, and the roots of popular unease and anger in Oromia run much deeper.
Dissatisfaction with corruption, maladministration and inadequate consultations on investments are fuelling dissent. This patchwork of grievances presents a fundamental challenge to an authoritarian government aiming to rapidly transform Ethiopia from an agrarian society to an industrial powerhouse. And the discontent is a national issue.
Illustrating the extent and severity of the 2015 drought
This map provides a more detailed view of how rainfall between March and September 2015 deviated from the 1981-2014 average in Ethiopia. During this period rainfall was more than 35 percent below average across much of Afar Region, northern Somali Region, and parts of eastern Amhara. An even larger area had rainfall more than 25 percent below average.
#Ethiopie #cartographie #eau #visualisation
cc @odilon
Ethiopia : Hunger Crisis Eclipsed By Political Turmoil Elsewhere
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) January 27, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. By: Merga Yonas. The food shortage in Ethiopia is getting worse. Aid agencies say up to 15 million people could suffer because of the El Nino-induced drought. Officials fear donors are neglecting the country in favor of others.
▻http://geeskaafrika.com/2016/01/27/ethiopia-hunger-crisis-eclipsed-by-political-turmoil-elsewhere
#famine
This Interactive Map Plots The Sites Of Possible Ethiopian Government Assassinations Okayafrica.
▻http://www.okayafrica.com/news/oromo-protests-ethiopian-government-assassination-map
ow many protesters have been killed during the recent uprisings against the Addis Ababa master plan?
Two weeks ago in their in-depth primer on the Oromo protests for Okayafrica, Hassen Hussein and Mohamed Ademo wrote that 40 people had been killed in the government crackdown. Human Rights watch estimates that 140 Oromo protesters have been killed since November 2015. One thing’s for sure, the Ethiopian government’s figure of 5 deaths is, to put it mildly, too low.
Ethiopian Opposition Say 10 Oromo Students Killed at Protests - Bloomberg Business
▻http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-10/ethiopian-opposition-say-10-oromo-students-killed-at-protests
Ethiopian police killed 10 Oromo students who were demonstrating peacefully over plans to integrate the capital, Addis Ababa, with surrounding towns in Oromia region in the past three weeks, an opposition leader said.
High-school and university students from across Ethiopia’s most-populous region are protesting to demand the government shelve a master plan for the city, said Bekele Nega, general secretary of the Oromo Federalist Congress.
“The protest is not as usual, they are not backing away,” he said by phone from Addis Ababa. “They are not willing to stop until the demands are met.” Authorities gave a lower number of fatalities.
Ethiopia, which the International Monetary Fund forecasts will have sub-Saharan Africa’s fastest-growing economy this year, is seeing tensions between its plans for rapid development and its constitution, which enshrines the right to ethnic self-administration. Oromo critics say the integration of the capital with surrounding towns amounts to annexation of the ethnic group’s territory as farmers will be evicted and the language and culture lost.
#meurtres #discriminations #peuples_autochtones #éthiopie #contestation #répression
Ethiopia: The Biggest African Refugee Camp No One Talks About
On a sunny November day in Addis Ababa the courtyard of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) centre is packed with people—some attend a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reception clinic, others get essential supplies, while students attend classes, and many simply play volleyball, table football or dominoes to pass the time.
Benyamin told IPS he came to Ethiopia from Yemen because practising his religion freely just wasn’t an option. After converting from Islam to the Jewish faith, he was put in a psychiatric hospital. “If I’d been sent to court I could have been put to death,” Benyamin adds phlegmatically.
Guilain, 35, from Guinea in West Africa, has lived in Ethiopia for 11 years, while two years ago his wife and daughter managed to enter the United States, where he hopes to join them—eventually.
“I miss them but I must keep my heart intact, so I can’t think about it too much,” Guilain told IPS. While he remains in Ethiopia, Guilain has formed a seven-member band of fellow Guineans who practise in the JRS’s small music room. “The music gives me hope. I am happy when I come here; you see people enjoying themselves—it helps you to forget.”
Now in its 20th year, the JRS compound resembles a microcosm of Africa’s—and even the Middle East’s—troubles, hosting refugees from South Sudan, Congo, Uganda, Somalia, Eritrea, Yemen, Burundi and more. It aims to assist 1,700 people in 2015, Hanna Petros, the centre’s director, told IPS.
While many European countries bemoan the arrival of refugees, developing countries host 86 per cent of the world’s refugees, according to a 2013 UNHCR Global Trends report. Ethiopia hosts about 680,000 refugees, the largest number of any African country.
▻http://www.ipsnews.net/2015/11/ethiopia-the-biggest-african-refugee-camp-no-one-talks-about
#Ethiopie #réfugiés #camp_de_réfugiés #asile #migrations
Africa to #Obama: Mind Your Own Business
▻http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/07/30/africa-obama-mind-your-own-business
Contrary to Obama’s self-appointed role as the secular priest of good governance, Africans fight for more freedom, democracy, and clean government daily.
And in these struggles, the US has consistently sided with our oppressors.
It was complicit in the murder of Patrice Lumumba, supported apartheid South Africa against Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress (ANC, whom it declared terrorists), financed the terrorist organisation National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), and propped up incompetent and corrupt tyrants like Mobutu, Samuel Doe, and Siad Barre.
Instead of coming to lecture, Obama should have had the humility to come and apologise to Africans for his country’s sadistic adventures on our continent.
Indeed, Obama has no moral right to lecture Africans on democracy, human rights, and clean government because his country has been sponsoring corrupt and cruel policies against black people at home and thieving tyrants on our continent.
If there are weaknesses in our governance they are ours to struggle against and overcome.
Steven Biko, a hero of the anti-apartheid struggle, said that the greatest weapon in the hands of an oppressor is never his guns and armies, but the mind of the oppressed.
This was clear from the assembled African #elites in Addis Ababa who were cheering Obama as he presented himself as the altruist advising our leaders on how to lead us better.
Like all imperial powers before it, the US seeks to dominate the world in order to exploit it. This is how it sustains her greedy consumption.
But to disguise its intentions, the US rewrites history, employs selective indignation, and chooses arbitrary priorities to present its selfish agenda.
Obama being of African ancestry is the best puppet the US uses to disguise its contempt for Africans. But the best he can do is to mind his own business and let us mind ours.
Eritrean rebels warn Australian firm exploring gold mines
March 28,2015 (ADDIS ABABA) - An Eritrean rebel group on Saturday warned an Australian mines firm against gold, gas and other natural resource exploration in the Red Sea’s nation.
▻http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article54432
#mines #or #Erythrée #Australie #rebelles #ressources_naturelles
cc @reka
#film, vu ce soir à Genève
#Difret
Three hours outside of Addis Ababa, a bright 14-year-old girl is on her way home from school when men on horses swoop in and kidnap her. The brave Hirut grabs a rifle and tries to escape, but ends up shooting her would-be husband. In her village, the practice of abduction into marriage is common and one of Ethiopia’s oldest traditions.
Meaza Ashenafi, an empowered and tenacious young lawyer, arrives from the city to represent Hirut and argue that she acted in self-defense. Meaza boldly embarks on a collision course between enforcing civil authority and abiding by customary law, risking the ongoing work of her women’s legal-aid practice to save Hirut’s life.
Beneath the layer of polite social customs, an aggressively rooted patriarchy perpetuates inhospitable conditions for women in this engrossing and significant film, based on a real-life story. Ethiopian-born writer/director Zeresenay Berhane Mehari portrays, with panoramic beauty, the complexity of a country’s transformation toward equal rights, featuring the courageous generation that dares to own it.
#Le_Corbusier’s Visions for Fascist #Addis_Ababa
Had Le Corbusier’s sketch for the colonial capital of Addis Ababa been realized, it would have been one of the most ruthlessly planned cities of the twentieth century. On the 19th of August 1936 (a mere three months after the conquest of Addis Ababa), Le Corbusier wrote to #Mussolini to offer his technical services and to comment on the appropriate design for the new cities of Africa Orientale Italiana, the Italian colonial empire. The design, which accompanied the letter, would show “how a city for modern times is born”, as the famous architect put it.
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Je vois maintenant un article sur les #spomenik en #ex-Yougoslavie :
The former Yugoslavia has always been a breeding ground for conflict. Due to its geographical location between Western and Eastern Europe, many powers, both before and after the First World War, had an interest in conquering this region, resulting in a mix of different cultures, religions, and heritage. After the Second World War ended, Yugoslavia was in ruins. Josip Broz, better know as Tito, became the leader of the country. To deal with the nationalist tendencies within the region, he introduced a strict socialist regime, which emphasised the similarities and mutual dependency of the different ethnic groups of the six republics within the region. Especially after the Second World War, Yugoslavia became a laboratory for making different ethnicities and religions work within the same nation via education, media, theatre, film and architecture.
▻http://failedarchitecture.com/mortal-cities-and-forgotten-monuments
Avec une #carte :
Ici des miniatures :
Peu de spomeniks dans #Openstreetmap - une recherche Taginfo ne renvoie qu’une poignée de nodes portant ’spomenik’ comme name : ▻http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/name=Spomenik - et les voici représentés sur une carte via l’API Overpass Turbo : ▻http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/5Nx
Hmm... Il me semble que pour préciser historic=memorial un memorial=spomenik s’impose - à ajouter à ►http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:memorial !
Merci @liotier... avec @albertocampiphoto nous sommes en train de faire une carte des « spomenik » (mémorial)... la base de données commence à être très riche... il faut qu’on trouve le temps (et que @fil et @reka nous aide) pour lui donner une forme et un sens...
Alberto est en train de préparer une expo photo aussi...
En tout cas, on est preneurs de toute information sur les spomeniks !
Alors si ’spomenik’ signifie ’memorial’ alors est-ce que sous-typer historic=memorial avec memorial=spomenik est redondant ou est-ce que c’est une manière pertinente de différencier ce genre particulier ?
Attends, attends, là je ne te suis pas... mais il faut faire une explication pour les nuls !
Argl, désolé - c’est du jargon folksonomique #Openstreetmap... Je me suis cru sur talk-fr@openstreetmap.org !
Le modèle de données Openstreetmap est bâti sur des objets géométriques (points et lignes, fermées ou ouvertes) étiquetés avec des couples clé/valeur. Par exemple la boulangerie du coin sera :
shop=bakery
name=Maison Liotier
wheelchair=yes
etc.
Mais aucune autorité centrale n’a jamais décrété que ces étiquettes sont les bonnes... La généralisation émerge des étiquetages et de leur discussion par leurs utilisateurs - souvent plusieurs méthodes coexistent le temps que l’une d’elles finisse par convaincre tout le monde... La convergence peut prendre des années - mais généralement ça se passe bien et la pratique est maintenant rodée.
Pour représenter un mémorial, l’étiquette bien connue est historic=memorial - il y en a actuellement 83105 dans Openstreetmap. Comme de nombreuses clés, son usage est documenté dans le wiki d’Openstreetmap : ▻http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:historic%3Dmemorial
Pour affiner la représentation en précisant le type de mémorial, c’est memorial= où ’’ est un type de mémorial tel que documenté à ►http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:memorial - en regardant les valeurs réelles à ▻http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/?key=memorial#values on s’aperçoit qu’il y en a 122 différentes et non seulement les 8 documentées (qui représente néanmoins l’essentiel)... La vérité est sur le terrain et non dans la documentation.
Ma question concernait le sous-type à appliquer à la représentation d’un spomenik dans Openstreetmap :
– Si on considère que ’spomenik’ signifie tout simplement ’mémorial’ en général, alors historic=memorial convient à lui seul
– Si on considère qu’un spomenik est un type particulier de monument définissable objectivement, alors à historic=memorial il convient d’adjoindre memorial=spomenik
– Si on considère qu’un spomenik est un mémorial de guerre comme d’autres mémorials de guerre, alors ce serait historic=memorial avec memorial=war_memorial
A vue de nez, la dernière solution me semble la bonne.
Pour les amateurs de ce genre de discussion pour trouver la meilleure façon d’étiqueter la représentation du monde dans Openstreetmap, la liste de diffusion est tagging@openstreetmap.org
tu vois @seenthis c’est encore mieux que @visionscarto :-)
Mais c’est une très bonne idée d’utiliser openstreetmap comme base (source ou copie) de vos propres données
Ethiopia, 30 years after the famine
With an Einsteinian shock of hair and a wise man’s beard, Mulugeta Tesfakiros, just off a flight from Washington, settled into an office of glass walls and vibrant artworks in Addis Ababa. The millionaire magnate, who has gone into the local wine business with Bob Geldof, mused on the new Ethiopia: “Most of the people need first security, second food … and democracy after that.”
Land grabbing fuelling violent conflict in Gambela region
▻http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/24057-land-grabbing-fuelling-violent-conflict-in-gambela-region
The tragedy of violent conflict, ethnic tension, property destruction and loss of human lives are the result of government land grabbing policies and resettlement programmes that have deprived and dispossessed indigenous and minority peoples in remote areas such as Gambela where the Majang and Anywaa (Anuak) communities reside.
As the situation further escalates into chaos, Ethiopian soldiers in the Southern Tip of Bifthu Megenagna reported struggling to control furious Olam, Shekacho and Majang communities over last month’s unprecedented killings of innocent Majang people. It is estimated that more than 70 Majang people died in the incident and many high level government officials were detained in the area and transferred to Addis Ababa prisons.
When Sisi met Desalegn, by Nizar Manek
▻http://mondediplo.com/blogs/when-sisi-met-desalegn
The guests had been seated at the tables of the great hall in Addis Ababa, and fanfares rang out as the Emperor Haile Selassie walked in with President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt at his right hand. Nasser was a ‘tall, stocky, imperious man, his head thrust forward and his wide jaws thrust into a smile,’ next to him Selassie’s ‘diminutive silhouette,’ his ‘thin expressive face, his glistening penetrating eyes’ worn by the years. Behind the extraordinary pair, the remaining leaders also entered in their pairs, writes Ryszard Kapuściński in his chronicle of the fall of the Abyssinian monarchy and the intrigues at Selassie’s court. The audience rose; everyone was applauding. ‘Ovations sounded for unity and the Emperor. Then the feast began.’
Ethiopia Shoots for the Stars and Galaxies as it Aims to Become Space Science Hub | Inter Press Service
▻http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/06/ethiopia-shoots-for-the-stars-and-galaxies-as-it-aims-to-become-space-scien
High up in the eucalyptus-strewn Entoto Mountains, which overlook the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, work is nearly complete on the country’s first observatory. Studying the stars and the galaxies will be vital for this Horn of Africa nation’s development and will hopefully also go a long way to developing brotherly love, say scientists who are part of the project.
“Space technology is often considered a luxury only for developed countries,” Solomon Belay, director of the Entoto Observatory and Research Centre, tells IPS. “But it’s actually a basic and vital need for development.”
He points out that space science technology and research can be applied to many basic necessities of life including health, energy, food security and environmental management.
Ah oui, ça va sûrement aider à garantir la sécurité alimentaire du pays qui a cédé des millions d’hectares de terres pour des productions destinées à l’exportation
Already another observatory is planned to be built near Lalibela, home to Ethiopia’s famous rock-hewn churches. It would be even higher at about 4,200m.
It is hoped that the observatories will kick start a scientific culture in Ethiopia, an important boost to socio-economic development, those involved tell IPS, as space science has applications in myriad areas in the public and private sectors.
Josef Huber, a systems engineer with German-based Astelco Systems that built and installed the Entoto Observatory’s telescopes, who volunteers at a public observatory in Munich, Germany, points out that studying the stars is more than just about development.
“When people see Saturn for the first time, and it’s not just a picture, they’re really impressed,” he tells IPS.
“For many people their world is their home and neighbours — when you see beyond that, you will never fight with your neighbour, especially if you realise a star could explode and wipe out a galaxy.”
#Ethiopia: 100,000 repatriated from #Saudi_Arabia over migrant crackdown
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/ethiopia-100000-citizens-repatriated-saudi-arabia-over-immigratio
Ethiopia has repatriated over 100,000 citizens from Saudi Arabia, Addis Ababa’s foreign ministry said Thursday, following a violent crackdown against undocumented immigrants in the oil-rich kingdom. Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom said that up to 50,000 more citizens are still expected to come home. “Last night arrivals from Saudi reached 100,620,” Tedros said in a statement, adding that “all citizens that were detained in Riyadh deportation camps are back”. read more
23,000 Ethiopians hand themselves over in Saudi crackdown on immigrants
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/saudi-migrant-worker-crackdown-continues-23000-ethiopians-turn-th
Some 23,000 Ethiopians have handed themselves in since Saudi authorities clamped down on undocumented foreign workers 10 days ago, Addis Ababa’s country’s ambassador in Riyadh said in remarks published Wednesday. The crackdown was marred by clashes between police and Ethiopian migrants on Saturday that led to the deaths of three people in the poor Manfuhah neighborhood of Riyadh. Ambassador Mohammed Hassan Kabiera told the English-language Arab News daily that the clashes "occurred because (...)
#crackdown_on_migrant_workers #Ethiopia #Saudi_Arabia #Top_News
Ethiopia opens Africa’s biggest windfarm | Global development | theguardian.com
▻http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/oct/28/ethiopia-opens-africa-biggest-windfarm
A windfarm billed as the biggest in sub-Saharan Africa has been opened by Ethiopia’s prime minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, a potentially crucial step for the continent’s renewable energy industry.
The €210m (£179m) Ashegoda windfarm consists of 84 hi-tech turbines towering above an arid region where villagers herd cattle and ride donkey-drawn carts as they have for generations.
The project, outside Mekelle in Tigray state, about 475 miles north of the capital, Addis Ababa, has a capacity of 120MW and will produce about 400m KWh a year. It was completed in phases over three and a half years and has produced 90m KWh for the national grid.
The farm, inaugurated by Desalegn on Saturday, was supervised by German company Lahmeyer International and implemented by France’s Vergnet with French funding. But the Ethiopian government insisted there were also local spin-offs.
un bémol
Media reports in 2011, however, noted that about 700 farmers had lost some or all their land to make way for the turbines. They were given financial compensation but some complained the money was too little.
#hétéronomie #système_technicien
finalement il n’y a plus que l’aspect énergie renouvelable qui distingue ce type de mégaprogramme d’un GPII ("grand projet inutile imposé").... c’est triste
@koldobika grand projet inutile, je ne sais pas si on peut trancher aussi facilement, vu d’ici, c’est chouette, on a tous l’électricité, ce n’est pas le cas de l’Ethiopie. Après, il y a la façon dont ces projets sont établis et menés, là-dessus on peut en effet s’interroger, ce que je fais. Mais attention, en France on est champion du nucléaire et peu s’y sont opposer, faut-il le rappeler ?
@odilon bien sûr ce n’est pas inutile dans la mesure où ça produit de l’électricité sans déchet nucléaire, mais la façon dont c’est fait (pharaonique et dépossédant pour les paysans locaux) est assez triste. J’ai tendance à me dire que des petites éoliennes domestiques en réseau seraient peut-être moins chères, plus résilientes et plus respectueuses des paysans.
Egypt’s FM to visit Ethiopia in show of ’good will’
▻http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/73834/Egypt/Politics-/Egypts-FM-to-visit-Ethiopia-in-show-of-good-will.aspx
In Addis Ababa, Amr is expected to reiterate a similar line by telling his interlocutors that what Morsi meant during Monday’s speech was that for Egypt, Nile water is a life or death matter, rather than threatening war as such.
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Egypt’s Morsi to participate in African Union Summit
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Egypt President Mohamed Morsi has left Cairo Friday afternoon to attend the 21st African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, scheduled from 19 to 27 May, which coincides with a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the continental organisation.
The Sudans’ Oil Agreement : An Important Step on a Long Road Ahead
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By Omar Zaki
Think Africa Press
August 28, 2012
After numerous failed negotiations, Sudan and South Sudan finally managed to settle the long disputed transit of oil at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa this month. Disagreement over the transport of South Sudanese oil through Sudan led South Sudan to shut down the production of oil altogether in January, with alarming consequences for both economies. Despite the Sudans’ Oil Agreement leading the way to greater cooperation between the two countries, many issues still remain. The main obstacle to the possibility of peaceful co-existence is the lack of clear borders and border security. Since the independence of South Sudan, conflict endures in Abyei, South Kordofan and the Blue Nile.
After an unsettling year of failed negotiations, heated disputes, and cross-border violence, Sudan and South Sudan this month came to a landmark agreement over the transit of oil.
Failure between the neighbouring governments to agree on a price for the transport of South Sudanese oil through Sudan eventually led to shutdown of production in January. For two economies heavily dependent on oil, the consequences have been dire. The negotiated breakthrough could therefore have monumental significance for both populations, although there is still far to go and numerous highly contentious issues between Sudan and South Sudan remain unresolved.
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