Is Ethiopia's GERD causing 'unprecedented' floods in Egypt?

Impacts from the flooding have so far been limited in Egypt, compared to Sudan, where dozens of people were killed and thousands of others displaced. [Getty] Egypt claims to have felt the heat from the excess water amounts released from the Grand...

US Aid cuts could fuel TB surge in African children

Sub-Saharan Africa could face a devastating resurgence of childhood tuberculosis (TB) in the next decade as a result of sharp cuts in United States global health funding a new study has warned. The collapse of US bilateral health aid could lead to...

Russia, Ethiopia forge new nuclear power alliance – A landmark for Africa’s energy future

MOSCOW: The State Corporation Rosatom and the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation signed a comprehensive Action Plan to take forward Ethiopia’s nuclear power ambitions during the recently held World Atomic Week (WAW 2025) in Moscow. The signing —...

Rethinking Ghana’s language policy in education: An Afrocentric defense of Mother tongue instruction

The history of language and education in Africa cannot be separated from the colonial project. British colonial education was never intended to create independent thinkers; it was designed to produce interpreters, clerks, and subordinates to the...

Galileo museum thrills McKinley Museum planetarium's Suzie Dills 

I have always been fascinated by the discoveries and theories of early astronomers, before technology. They used mathematics, physics and observations to gain an understanding of the cosmos. Without a doubt, Galileo Galilei is my favorite. His...

Giants and Lilliputians: Haile Selassie and President Isaias Afwerki (Part 2)

Power, Image, and Machiavellian Survival: The Body as a Mirror of Power To understand Isaias Afwerki’s psychology, one must first confront the contradiction written across his body. His appearance—spare, stiff, and strangely careless—betrayed none...

Ethiopian envoy awarded honorary PhD degree

- Advertisement - ISLAMABAD, Oct 01 (APP): Governor of Sindh, Kamran Khan Tessori on Wednesday conferred an honorary PhD degree and a gold medal on Dr. Jemal Beker Abdula, Special Envoy and Ambassador Extraordinary of Ethiopia to Pakistan, for his...

WEA panel highlights Africa’s pivotal role in global evangelical growth, underscores need for training

Dr. Wanjiru M. Gitau speaks during the “Living the Gospel in Global Growth” panel at the World Evangelical Alliance General Assembly in Seoul, joined by Dr. David Tarus (first left), Jayson Mandryk (second left), and moderator Dr. Lisa Pak...

Ethiopian Scholars Urged to Bolster National Dev’t with Solution-oriented Research

Addis Ababa, September 29, 2025 (ENA)— The Ministry of Education has urged scholars to bolster national development by prioritizing problem-solving research. Opening the 22nd International Research Workshop at Hawassa University, a collaborative...

US must embrace, not resist, Global South’s ascent

For decades, Western policymakers and analysts operated under the comfortable assumption that the international order would remain fundamentally unipolar, with the United States and its allies setting the rules of the game. That era is ending—not...

Science-policy dialogue in the eastern Nile Basin to enhance synergies across the water, food, energy and ecosystems

In the eastern Nile Basin, researchers and policymakers are coming together to put solutions into practice at the intersection of water, food, energy and ecosystems. The eastern Nile Basin stands at a crossroads of opportunity and challenge. Its...

Sino-African partnership can enhance global green development

Climate change has emerged as the single greatest development challenge of our time, threatening to reverse decades of progress across the Global South. Nowhere is this more evident than in Africa, which contributes less than 4 percent of global...

Djibouti: Solar-powered desalination plant to tackle water scarcity

A solar-powered seawater desalination plant is being constructed in Dalaf, in the Obock region of Djibouti, marking a major step towards addressing chronic water shortages and boosting sustainable development in the area. The facility, only the...

Ethiopia: Nuclear power plant ambition gets Russian impetus

Ethiopia is one step closer to starting construction on a nuclear power plant after the East African country signed an “Action Plan” with Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation to get the wheels rolling on the project. The agreement was signed...

Mean Platelet Volume: Key Biomarker in Metabolic Syndrome

In a groundbreaking study published in Scientific Reports, researchers have explored the significance of mean platelet volume (MPV) as a potential biomarker for indicating the presence of anemia and platelet disorders specifically among patients...

Ruto rallies COMESA bloc to embrace technology for inclusive growth

President Ruto joins COMESA heads of state and government at the 24th summit in Nairobi. President William Ruto has urged African nations to embrace digital transformation to strengthen regional integration, create jobs, and secure economic...

Global Organizations Ignore Over One Million Dead and Displaced in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region

The surgical team operates on patients, saving lives and restoring health despite the odds against them. Photo by Dr. Matthew Spreadbury. Vascular surgeon Dr. Matthew Spreadbury picked up my call as he was finishing a full day of surgery alongside...

Assessing Satisfaction in Ethiopia’s Community Health Insurance

In recent years, Ethiopia has garnered international attention for its innovative approaches to healthcare, particularly through the implementation of community-based health insurance (CBHI) programs. This transformative model aims to provide...

Dominican leads Humanitarian AI project in Colombia, Nigeria, and Ethiopia

Santo Domingo.- Dominican economist and data scientist Alberto Castillo Aroca is leading the Arems (Agentic Risk and Environmental Management System) project—an innovative Humanitarian Artificial Intelligence platform designed to help vulnerable...

Science The Brighter Side of News Million-year-old skull discovery rewrites the story of human evolution

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they understood about our origins. The fossil, named Yunxian 2, was extracted from the Hanjiang River terrace in Hubei Province in...