Ethiopia must take back Eritrea's Assab port says Opposition leader Yacob (Jimma Times)

Dr. Yacob Hailemariam, senior executive member of the opposition party Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ), told the media that Ethiopia “must regain her Assab port.” Speaking to local newspapers, Yacob said the Assab port issue is not a closed case.Dr. Yacob, who previously worked as the lead prosecutor in the United Nations tribunal on war crimes in Rwanda and as a professor of law in American university, has often referred to the Assab case as a matter of international law and justice. He mocked the new “illegal” border agreements, saying the signatories cannot pick and choose which laws and treaties to uphold. When Prime Minister Meles Zenawi signed several agreements with Eritrean leaders Dr. Yacob declared “the question of Aseb is not going to be put to rest by mere signatures” of unelected and illegitimate politicians since the people of Ethiopia have always had access to the sea for several millennia...[Read more]

Millennium Dam: a turning point in the Ethiopian History (Walta)

Molla Mitiku

Between the two mountains: Lebeyate and Negro, in the Benishangul Gumuz Regional State, history will repeat itself. The history made by our forefathers against foreign conquerors in the Northern Mountains of Ethiopia will be certainly repeated by this generation by making poverty a history...Read more

Ethiopia Plans to Build New Hydropower Plant to Generate 5,250 Megawatts (Bloomberg)

Ethiopia will build a new hydropower plant in the Nile River basin that will generate 5,250 megawatts of electricity, Water and Energy Minister Alemayehu Tegenu said. ..Read more