June 6, 2023 - Connect Africa

Ethiopia Should Not be Shy to Honor the International Black Community

Once again the black community in the U.S. has shown its support for Ethiopia when the country is left alone to deal with the dispute over the Great Renaissance Dam…

By Mahlet Ayele Beyecha June 6, 2023Politics1 Comment

GERD

Ethiopia’s Diplomatic Victory on the Disputed GERD Is Beyond Economical Value

The decade long dispute over how to share the water of the Nile between Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan has pulled United States, World Bank, United Nations Security Council, European Union,…

By Mahlet Ayele Beyecha June 6, 2023GERD

GERD

The Right Dam in the Right Place

After having an enlightening zoom conversation with the Historian and Ethiopianist, Prof. Haggai Erlich, about the “Historical Perspectives on Ethiopia, Egypt and the Nile and Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD),”…

By Mahlet Ayele Beyecha June 6, 2023GERD

GERD Politics

Ethiopia’s Grand Nile Dam represents justice, not a threat

In 1929, Egypt, nominally an independent kingdom, but in reality still controlled by imperial Britain, signed the Anglo-Egyptian agreement over the Nile, which gave it legal hegemony over the world’s longest river.…

By Mahlet Ayele Beyecha June 6, 2023GERD, Politics

GERD Pan Africanism

The GERD is everything that Africa aspires for!

If we do not approach the problems in Africa with a common front and a common purpose, we shall be haggling and wrangling among ourselves until we are colonized again…

By Mahlet Ayele Beyecha June 6, 2023GERD, Pan Africanism