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CAIRO, (Aug. 21, 2009) IPS/GIN – An increase in Egyptian investment
in Ethiopia appears to be moving that country to accepting a Nile
water sharing agreement that leaves Egypt’s share of the river
waters essentially unchanged.

Previously, Ethiopia had spearheaded a campaign by upstream states
against Egypt’s and Sudan’s “historical right” to Nile water as
stipulated in earlier agreements.

Nile river states have been trying to hammer out a new agreement,
dubbed the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI), since the late 1990s.
Ethiopia, along with other Nile states, pushed for a revised
agreement that does not grant Egypt and Sudan such a large share
of Nile river water or require their permission to build upstream
water projects. Read the rest of this entry →

PORT-LOUIS, (May 5, 2010) IPS/GIN – As Mauritians went to the polls
to elect a new government for the next five years in a closely
contested election, across the island women were voting for a
better life.

At the close of the polling centers late on May 5, 77.8 percent of
the 879 897 registered voters cast their votes compared to 81.5
percent who did so in 2005. Read the rest of this entry →