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- Wednesday 24 April 2013
April 23, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudanese president Salva Kiir Mayardit said on Tuesday that the Chinese government has approved a major loan scheme to help his country improve infrastructure, adding that the agreement shows the level of (...)
- Wednesday 16 February 2011
February 15, 2011 (ADDIS ABABA) - The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) has launched the construction of a massive hydroelectric generation plant in Benishangul state, very close to the Sudanese border, according to an (...)
- Monday 20 February 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
February 19, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) – Ethiopia has completed a power transmission line that links its power grid with neighbouring Sudan, state Electric and Power Corporation (EEPCO) announced.
Funded by the World (...)
- Saturday 28 July 2012
July 27, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in Sudan has expressed dissatisfaction with the timing and target of the decision to increase electricity charges, asking President Omer Al-Bashir to reconsider it. A (...)
- Friday 10 August 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
August 9, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopia is making final preparations to begin permanently exporting power to neighbouring Sudan which would enable Khartoum to replace its thermal power generating units with (...)
- Monday 16 April 2012
April 11, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA/JUBA) - South Sudan has tightened visa regulations for the many foreign nationals working in the nine-month-old country, as the oil dispute with north Sudan continues to have a negative affect on both (...)
- Sunday 30 January 2011
By Julius N. Uma
January 28, 2011 (JUBA) — Widespread fuel crisis coupled with abnormally high prices have hit South Sudan, less than two weeks after the semi-autonomous region successfully concluded its self-determination referendum. (...)
- Sunday 9 October 2011
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
October 7, 2011 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopia and Djibouti inaugurated a 230-kV electric power transmission project that would allow Djibouti to import 35-megawatts of electricity from Ethiopia, ministry of foreign (...)
- Friday 10 June 2011
June 9, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s north-south halves and Ethiopia will benefit greatly from striking a deal to exchange the former’s oil with the latter’s electricity, a new study has argued.
Horn of Africa’s leading powers, Sudan, an (...)
- Saturday 25 February 2012
February 24, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) signed yesterday a loan agreement with Sudan in the amount of $30 million that will be used to build a dam on Atabarah river.
OFID Director-General (...)
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