8 July 2021 By AFP Ethiopia’s controversial mega-dam construction on the upper Nile River has caused a decade of regional tensions. Ethiopia’s construction of a massive dam on a tributary of the Nile River, which the UN Security Council meets about on Thursday, is raising regional tensions notably with Egypt, which depends on the Nile […]
10 July 2021 ART: QUARTZ/DANIEL LEE. PHOTO: REUTERS/HANNAH MCKAY Borders are arbitrary lines on a map, but they have real impact on where we live and work, and the ways we trade and transact. How porous or rigid they are is determined mainly by policy, sometimes geography, and occasionally by sheer human will. Tax […]
14 July 2021 By Tim McDonnell REUTERS/MOHAMED ABD EL GHANY To draw in tourists, Egypt dropped its Covid-19 testing entry requirement for travelers with proof of vaccination. The coronavirus pandemic has been harsh for Africa’s $50 billion tourism industry, with the fall-off in foreign visitors likely to knock out more than 6% of countries’ GDP on average in 2021, according to the UN.Last […]
14 July 2021 Willard Mwemba In summary This article highlights the nature of jurisdiction vested upon selected national competition authorities and the limitations on the jurisdiction vested upon them. It explores the various theories and case law that have arisen in various regions in respect of the extraterritorial application of competition laws. It advocates for […]
8 July 2021 By Ha Yoon Ah As North Korea builds concrete walls and high voltage wires along the entire China-North Korea border, military units and labor brigades tasked with the construction recently received an order to complete their work by Oct. 10, or Party Foundation Day. A source in Yanggang Province, speaking on condition […]
July 10, 2021 By Princess Giri Rashir Ri-Bhoi District Congress visited Jatalong, a remote village along the disputed areas of Assam and Meghalaya, on Friday. This is what they found Jatalong: A remote village caught in the vexed Assam-Meghalaya boundary row Shillong: The vexed inter-state boundary row between Assam and Meghalaya continues to have an […]
12 July 2021 Egypt is threatening war with Ethiopia over management of Nile River water. The dispute has been going on since 2011, when Ethiopia began construction of its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Egypt has a much larger and better equipped military than Ethiopia and spends twenty times as much each year on its […]
13 July 2021 By Cherry Leonardi, Elizabeth Storer and Jonathan Fisher Abstract African borderlands – such as those between South Sudan, Uganda and Congo – are often presented by analysts as places of agency and economic opportunity, in contrast to hardened, securitized borders elsewhere. We emphasize, however, that even such relatively porous international borders can […]
Summer 2021 By Djiby Thiam To make clean water and sanitation truly accessible to local communities across the continent, African institutions must take the lead in understanding the specific challenges and opportunities they face. Picture Taken from Luchelle Feukeng: Published on October 16 2019 by Afrik21 In recent years, African leaders have come together to promote initiatives […]
July 10, 2021 By Newsroom The United Nations stands ready to support Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan in efforts to resolve their decade-long disagreement over the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), senior officials told the Security Council on Thursday. UN Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, reported that recent negotiations under the African […]
