The Djibouti delegation on a fact-finding mission after attending the recent high-level 26th Intermodal Africa 2022 Exhibition and Conference in Mombasa.
Widespread abuses against civilians in the western part of Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have charged in a new report.
they know their status and do the right thing by staying at home, which means they also need access to the right level of sick pay to do the right thing. the world health organization and groups representing doctors have described the move as premature. and for people like piers rankin, a cancer patient, there is danger still in lifting the last remaining restrictions. taking a step into the unknown. i am a high risk individual to covid and my family have to make sacrifices to try and keep me safe. how much risk can we bear without, essentially, shielding again for an indefinite period of time? the changes expected this week will apply to england only. other parts of the uk are moving at their own speed as the latest 0micron wave passes. jim reed, bbc news. ethiopia has started generating the first electricity from its controversial dam on the river nile. the $4 billion project is africa s
or sudan, but the two countries say they need a binding deal, particularly about future mitigations of possible droughts and the management of the water supplies. and now it has started generating electricity for the first time, creating a sense ofjubilation among ethiopians. when it becomes fully operational, it is expected to generate more than 5,000 mw of electricity, increasing the country s capacity significantly, and becoming one of the continent s largest sources of hydroelectric power. when the construction of the dam was started around ten years ago, the cost was expected to be around $4.6 billion us. now that figure is expected to have increased. ethiopia has fully financed this project, and many ethiopians have contributed to the dam. and because of that, this project is a source of pride and a rare sense of unity for a country that has been divided by war and ethnic strife. kalkidan yibeltal, bbc news, western ethiopia.
biggest hydroelectric scheme. it s designed to double ethiopia s electricity capacity and transform its economy. but the project s caused friction with its neighbours downstream, as water is diverted from the nile before it reaches sudan and egypt. kalkidan yabeltal sent this report. this is the grand ethiopian renaissance dam. a hydroelectric mega dam that has been a source of controversy and diplomatic rows between ethiopia, egypt and sudan. ethiopia began building it in 2011 as part of an initiative to electrify tens of millions of its citizens. but downstream countries, egypt and sudan, immediately raised concerns about its impact on their essential water supplies. the three countries have sat down for talks throughout the years multiple times, but none of these efforts have led to binding agreements. ethiopia says it had no desire to hurt the interests of egypt