All landlocked countries have the international legal right to obtain reliable access to the sea. An estimated 95% of Ethiopia’s international trade is presently conducted via Djibouti, but that country reportedly charges onerous rates for using its commercial port facilities. The pandemic, the two-year-long Northern Conflict, and a severe draught led to financial ...
... religious and linguistic representation
In recent months, at least six African states have declared their desire to join BRICS. Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan (before commencement of the civil conflict) explicitly indicated this, while Ethiopia was the last to declare its intention in late June 2023. In total, the number of candidates for accession has
reached 20
.
It is quite natural that the process of “enlarging BRICS” will not be able to satisfy all the aspirants or even most ...
Interview with Alemayehu Tegenu Aargau, Ethiopia’s Ambassador to Moscow
The Russian International Affairs Council invited Ethiopia’s ambassador to Russia, His Excellency Alemayehu Tegenu Aargau, to talk about the current developments taking place in his home country, outlining the prospects ...
On July 22, 2020, the International Crisis Group (ICG) held an online expert discussion on the state of negotiations regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile River in the context of the rising water levels in the reservoir of the hydroelectric power plant and another aggravation of Egypt-Ethiopia relations.
On July 22, 2020, the International Crisis Group (ICG) ...
... and development issues in the Horn of Africa in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, economic recession, and exacerbation of regional conflicts. The discussion focused on national models of social and political modernization, including in Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia, the demographic prospects of these countries, opportunities and challenges for the development of democratic institutions, external debt, and a regional arms race.
Other topics included issues associated with the activity of external ...
... Forecast: Revealing the Future of the Middle East
Despite some positive trends, there is a serious challenge in Egyptian-Chinese relations that could negatively affect the interaction between the two countries — intensive cooperation between China and Ethiopia. In particular, Beijing
provides
Addis Ababa with financial and technological assistance in the construction of the Gilgel Gibe III Dam on the Omo River, as well as the Tekeze Dam. Egypt perceives Ethiopia's hydropower policies as a threat to ...
... contacts with African elites and building trusting relations in the spirit of Soviet diplomacy.
Olga Kulkova:
What Russia Can Offer Africa
Africa is also changing ethnoculturally. One striking example of this change was the 2014–2018 Oromo revolution in Ethiopia, which went unnoticed by the Russian expert community. It is customary for experts to talk about Ethiopia’s special status in Russian foreign policy: the countries share a common Christian culture; Russian poet Alexander Pushkin’s great-grandfather ...
... 2014 discussed trade, investment and security issues. Its main outcome was Obama’s
promise
of a USD 37-billion injection of government and private investments into African countries.
Although the declared aims of Obama’s visit to Kenya and Ethiopia were to promote trade and strengthen security, the real ones were primarily political.
The U.S. president’s tour of East Africa on July 24–28, 2015, can be seen as a sequel to the efforts to implement the American strategy toward ...