ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The reservoir behind Ethiopia’s Great Renaissance Dam is filling up, its water minister said on Wednesday, a day after talks with Sudan and Egypt over the giant Blue Nile hydroelectric project . A satellite image of the brochure shows a close-up view of the Ethiopian Great …
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More than 20 countries, including Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain and Thailand, will see their number decrease by at least half by 2100, according to projections from a major study. China’s population will drop from 1.4 billion people today to 730 million in 80 years, said the study …
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The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has demanded an “urgent clarification” of Ethiopia after conflicting reports on whether it had begun to fill the reservoir of its giant dam on the Blue Nile River. Ethiopian state television reported that the filling of the Ethiopian Great Renaissance Dam (GERD) began on Wednesday, a …
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Activists in South Africa decapitated a statue of 19th-century British colonialist Cecil Rhodes, a diamond magnate who became wealthy from the work of black miners and then limited the amount of land they could own. The statue in Cape Town is the last to be targeted as part of a …
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Fakhfakh was named prime minister by President Kais Saied in January after last year’s general election, which ended without a clear winner and a fractured parliament. Fakhfakh’s resignation came as a campaign to expel him in a vote of no confidence. The moderate Islamist opposition party, Ennahda, said in a …
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