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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 (...)
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Thursday 1 September 2011
By Ngor Arol Garang
August 31, 2011 (JUBA) - The government of the newly established state of South Sudan on Wednesday pledged its commitment to improve both water and electricity systems in its national and state capitals.
FILE - A (...)
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Friday 24 June 2011
June 23, 2011 (JUBA) – The urban population in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, panicked on Thursday after rumours that the river, which supplies the population in the city with water, had been poisoned by the North Sudan government just (...)
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Sunday 19 June 2011
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
June 18, 2011 (ADDIS ABABA) – The outgoing Sudanese Ambassador to Ethiopia, Muhidin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim, said that the Sudanese community there support the hydropowered dam the Horn of Africa country intends to (...)
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Thursday 12 May 2011
May 11, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Shortage of water has hit large parts of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, leading to the outbreak of street protests on Wednesday.
Hundreds of citizens in Buri Abu Hashish area in eastern Khartoum on Wednesday took (...)
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Monday 7 March 2011
March 6, 2011 (JUBA) – The price of bottled water in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, has doubled in recent weeks.
Half litre bottles of drinking water, initially priced at one Sudanese Pound (USD 0.37) now costs two Sudanese Pounds - (...)
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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 (...)
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Sunday 25 September 2011
September 24, 2011 (JUBA) – The newly independent Republic of South Sudan has sought full membership of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) two months after it became independent on 9 July.
The decision was made on Friday per presentation (...)
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Saturday 23 July 2011
July 22, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Massive protests erupted Friday in sporadic parts of the Sudanese capital Khartoum over protracted water cuts, in the latest sign of public discontent over low-quality municipal services.
Sudanese anti-riot (...)
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Wednesday 5 October 2011
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
October 4, 2011 (ADDIS ABABA) – The Nile Basin Discourse, a civil society network, on Wednesday hailed what it termed as a new chapter in relations and cooperation between Egypt and Ethiopia to settle their (...)
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