Ethiopia

U.S. diplomacy has failed. African diplomacy can’t afford to.

The conflict between Ethiopia and Egypt over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has already started. It’s just happening in cyberspace.

A string of assassinations has spawned conspiracy theories and intercommunal suspicion, threatening the country’s stability.

The burning of the Moria refugee camp in Lesbos has exposed the EU’s short-sighted, inhumane, and ineffective approach to asylum.

Some U.S. officials fear the move will harm Washington’s relationship with Addis Ababa.

Trump is pressuring schools to reopen, fascists have shown their faces in Portland, and the controversy surrounding Ethiopia’s Blue Nile dam.

Geopolitics, water security, and health will keep the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam alive.

The massive Ethiopian dam is a flash point for tensions in Africa—and is now sowing confusion and discord within the U.S. government, with many officials concerned Washington is too much in Egypt’s corner.

Insufficient water for washing is likely to worsen the coronavirus in the poorest nations. There’s a better way forward.

Ethiopia and Egypt are at odds over a Nile dam. Washington should be helping them compromise, rather than doing Cairo’s bidding.

“You really have to go back to decades ago in the U.S., to Dust Bowl days, to understand just how devastating this can be.”

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister has disbanded Africa’s largest political party in an effort to reinvent the country’s politics—but some powerful players stand to lose, and they won’t go quietly.

But talks in Washington haven’t yet solved the trickiest questions still looming over the dam’s impact on countries downstream.