Israel must adopt a proactive Red Sea strategy — one that builds alliances grounded in shared culture and interests to confront the expanding Iran-Houthis-Islamist axis. The only sustainable solution ...

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include a comment from the New Jersey Department of Health. A Jersey City hospital will close its doors after 152 years of service after failing to get ...

Namhla Thando Matshanda receives funding from the National Research Foundation. The formal launch of Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in September 2025 made news across the world. There was ...

Ethiopia inaugurated the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on September 9, which was, to all intents and purposes, an epochal event. Built across the Nile, it is the largest hydroelectric dam in ...

On September 11, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed officially opened the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a $5 billion megaproject that has been under construction since 2011. Operations ...

Ethiopia has officially opened the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a megaproject under construction for over a decade and a half, and is Africa’s largest hydroelectric power station. A hulking ...

Abdulhakim Shamsuddin was 14 and in high school in the city of Dire Dawa when he first heard that he could contribute to the building of a dam on the Blue Nile. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, ...

Now, rusting chains holding up a bright yellow sign reading, ‘Caution: Do Not Enter,’ and battered blue tarps with duct tape are what greet people at the entrance of Martin General Hospital off ...

In theory, the GERD, whose 13 turbines can produce more than 5,000 megawatts of electricity, could be a boon not just for Ethiopia, but also for its neighbours. Yet it has long caused rancour between ...

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A young Sudanese refugee prepares a meal next to her shelter in the Farchana refugee camp, on April 7, 2024. [Photo by Joris Bolomey / AFP) Across East Africa, cycles of liberation and repression have ...