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  • Khartoum To Host Sudan-Ethiopia Investment Forum On May 10

    Sudanese capital Khartoum is due to host the Sudanese-Ethiopian Investment Forum this Saturday.

    The two-day forum is organized by Sudan's National Investment Agency in collaboration with the Ethiopian embassy in Khartoum.

    Higher Council for Investment State Minister Ali Tawer said in statement here Sunday that the forum would provide a strong boost for the progress of economic, social and cultural relations between the two countries.

    It also reflected Sudan's keenness to activate investments between the two countries, he added, noting that the forum's agenda would focus on achievement in the investment field through a review of various working papers on joint opportunities for trade and investment, banking transactions and the activation of bilateral and regional agreements.
    Tawer also revealed that meetings of the Sudanese-Ethiopian Ministerial Committee will be convened between May 24 and 28 in Addis Ababa, where a Sudanese trade and investment exhibition will be held.

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  • No plans to harm Egypt, Ethiopia tells Kerry

    Ethiopia has delivered assurances to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that its development projects do not aim to harm Egypt, an Ethiopian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Saturday.

    Speaking to private radio station Sheger FM, Dina Mufti said that Kerry had talked about the importance of cooperation between Egypt and Ethiopia.

    He said that Addis Ababa had assured Kerry that its development projects do not aim to cause harm to either Egypt or other countries.

    The spokesman went on to say that Ethiopia assured Kerry, who concluded a three-day visit to Addis Ababa on Saturday, that the Ethiopian projects will benefit other countries. 

    Relations between Ethiopia and Egypt soured last year over Ethiopia's plans to build its Grand Renaissance Dam on the upper reaches of the Nile River – Egypt's main source of water.
    The controversial project raised alarm bells in Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country, which fears a reduction of its traditional share of Nile water.
    Ethiopia, for its part, is determined to build a series of dams in order to generate electricity, both for local consumption and export.
    Addis Ababa insists the new dam will benefit downstream states Sudan and Egypt, which will be invited to purchase electricity thus generated.

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  • Ethiopia, China Sign Agreements

    Addis Ababa May 04/2014 Ethiopia and China here today signed a number of agreements, which are expected to deepen the bilateral cooperation. Various ministers from both sides signed the agreements at the National Palace.
    The two sides have signed 16 accords including loan agreements to support the Welkait Sugar Factory and Dire Dawa -Dewele road, among others.
    The cooperation focuses on rapid industrialization, infrastructure, energy sector, improvements of peoples’ livelihoods, people to people exchange and science and technology, among others.
    After the signing, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said the two parties have agreed on enhancing Ethiopia’s industrialization and Ethiopia’s vision to become Africa’s manufacturing powerhouse.
    The Premier said Ethiopia- China relation is strategic and based on mutual interest and benefit and they have enjoyed strong diplomatic and economic relation. As the largest developing economy, China has enormous potential to support Africa’s development, the Premier said.
    The Premier said the relationship is mutual and continue to be like this saying "Our relationship is a strategic relationship. It is not only for one year to year or some years only. It is growing from time to time... We want to expand this relationship."
    As China is the largest developing economy and Ethiopia is one of the fastest, the two countries have a lot of issues to share and work on, according to him.
    "In this regard we consider that we have a common destiny and we work for this common destiny for the benefit and prosperity of our people."

    Hailemariam believes that the visit of the Chinese Premier will strengthen and take the relationship between the two countries to a higher level. The Premier affirmed that the two parties will continue on strengthening this relationship for the future.
    Ethiopia is keen to learn from China’s experience in multiple economic fields in particular in manufacturing and export promotion sector and infrastructure development,
    Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on his part asserted that the cooperation between China and Ethiopia forged for enhancing development.  
    The cooperation between the two countries will continue to extend concrete benefit to the people of the two sides, said the Premier.
    He said China is happy to see continuous, solid and fast progress in Ethiopia along its path of development and even greater achievements in poverty alleviation.
    The Premier said China and Africa are partners towards development and growth."We are partners in pursuit of development."
    The pursuit of common development between the two sides will bring benefits to both sides and will also help safeguard interests of all developing countries and help promote inclusive growth in a large scale, the Chinese Premier said.
    According to Li, using creative ways is needed in enhancing the China-Africa cooperation, in a bid to contribute to the employment and protection of biodiversity and eco environment in Africa.

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  • Nigerian police: 223 kidnapped girls still missing

    Nigerian authorities specified Friday that a total of 276 schoolgirls were taken last month by militants from a boarding school, but 53 of them escaped, leaving 223 still in the hands of their captors, police said.Those numbers are higher than previously reported. Authorities had been saying about 230 girls were abducted in the dead of night at a high school in the country's northeast region -- a hotbed for the Islamist group Boko Haram -- and roughly 200 of the girls were missing.Authorities quickly added Friday that the new figure for missing girls -- 223 -- could grow as police fill in spotty school enrollment records.At a minimum, Friday's announcement provided a clearer picture of how many girls are still missing."After thorough investigation by the police and other security agencies we have been able to compile a list of 276 girls initially abducted from the school," said Lawan Tanko, the Borno state police commissioner."Out of this number 53 were able to escape while 223 are still being held by the kidnappers," Tanko said. "This list may not be exhaustive because there could be other missing girls excluded because their parents may not have registered their names, which is why we have made announcement calling on parents whose girls were missing at the school to come forward and submit the name of their missing children."On April 16, armed men herded the girls out of bed and forced them into trucks in the town of Chibok. The convoy of trucks then disappeared into the dense forest bordering Cameroon.Angry Nigerians contend authorities are not doing enough. They took to social media using hashtags #BringBackOurGirls and #BringBackOurDaughters to demand more from the government.but Nigeria's Defense Ministry said it's committed to the search.Boko Haram's name translates to "Western education is a sin" in the local language.The group especially opposes the education of women. Under its version of Sharia law, women should be at home raising children and looking after their husbands, not at school learning to read and write.Human rights groups say the militants kidnap girls to perform chores and sexual services.

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  • Egypt satellite monitors Ethiopia’s dam

     A new Egyptian satellite will track the construction of an Ethiopian hydroelectric dam over which officials in Cairo and Addis Ababa have been locked in a standoff over fears that the project will hinder Egypt's access to the Nile river waters.

    Launched almost two weeks ago, Egysat will monitor Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam by capturing high quality photos of the construction site along with other sources of the Nile, said Alaa El-din El-Nahry, vice president of Egypt's National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences.

    The LE300 million satellite – which will come into operation in mid-June after a two-month test period – will track the dam's height, storage capacity and water discharge. It will also monitor the Kongo River basin to assess the effectiveness of a proposed project to link the Kongo and Nile rivers.

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