Addis Ababa, 4 September 2018 (AltAfrica)-A three-day workshop to discuss mainstreaming and implementing the water-energy nexus for sustainable development in Africa opened today in Addis Ababa. Organised by the United Nations Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD), the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), UN Environment, the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) and ...

Ethiopia new Prime Minister Abiye Ahmed London, March 28, 2018 (AltAfrika)-Ethiopia’s government has appointed by way of ballot Abiye Ahmed as the new prime minister after the resignation of Hailemariam Desalegn. Desalegn announced that he would be quick to arrest persistent and violent unrest which started in 2015, the greatest challenge to the ruling coalition’s ...

Take a journey through any African city and it’s clear that the continent is permanently on the move. Minibuses crammed with commuters weave manically through traffic, pickup trucks overflow perilously with construction workers, and decades-old Japanese taxis spew diesel fumes among roadside vendors. Despite this sense of constant, exhilarating motion, the unfortunate reality is that ...

Ethiopia’s prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn has unexpectedly resigned, after the worst anti-government protests in over 25 years, saying he hoped the surprise decision would help planned reforms succeed and create a lasting peace. Ethiopia has been rocked by months of protests demanding greater freedoms that have left hundreds dead and many more detained. The government ...

Earlier this year the Ethiopian government announced it would release political prisoners and shut an infamous Addis Ababa prison in an effort to “foster national reconciliation”. This came as a surprise from a regime that had previously denied the very existence of political prisoners and whose heavy-handed approach to opposition had become an Ethiopian reality. ...

The World Bank again declared that the Ethiopian economy would be Africa’s most expansive in 2017; it is forecast to expand by 8.3% in 2017, ahead of rival Tanzania’s projected 7.2% and runner up Côte d’Ivoire’s 6.8%. Ethiopia has overtaken Kenya as Eastern Africa’s regional economic giant in recent years, but its politics remains fragile ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has always had strong ties with Africa. Given that about 65% of all Arabs are also Africans, it is no surprise that there is a close relationship between the two. Yet these bonds were overwhelmingly with North Africa until relatively recently. The economic potential of the continent as a whole ...

A woman drags by a limp leg the carcass of one of her few remaining prized black-headed sheep away from her family’s domed shelter fashioned out of sticks and fabric that stands alone amid the desiccated scrubland. “Once they are all dead we will go to one of the settlements,” says the Somali-Ethiopian pastoralist who ...