#AddisAbaba ,
"Ketel Tera" has been transformed into a clean, green, and dignified community for its residents.
Within just four months, 960 new homes were constructed, allowing residents who were temporarily relocated during construction to return to their community and begin a new chapter in better homes.
Once marked by overcrowding, poor living conditions, and a tragic fire, Ketel Tera is now a safer, cleaner, and more dignified place to live.
May God bless #Ethiopia and its people.
Ethiopians are heading to the polls on Monday 1 June.
Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party is expected to win.
I took this video of the Addis Ababa skyline on 9 May on my way back from Lusaka to London.
The transformation of this great city in the last decade is incredible.
@HanyIbrahim17@TheReporterET Ethiopians also remember Egypt’s historical role during Eritrea’s secession and repeated threats over the Nile. we supports cooperation, but rejects monopoly and external pressure over our sovereign development. 40% of Abay is our share & we are building dams for irrigation
@HanyIbrahim17 True cooperation cannot ignore the 1959 Egypt–Sudan agreement, which excluded upstream countries and attempted to monopolize the Nile. Ethiopia rejects unilateral control claims and supports equitable, inclusive cooperation under modern international law
@HanyIbrahim17@RenaissanceDam Egypt still grows highly water intensive crops like rice, sugarcane, and bananas while demanding strict Nile quotas from others and counting others resource. 😳comical
@HanyIbrahim17 Egy-Sud spent decades defending 1959 monopoly agrt that completely ignored Eth & others, as if our existence & rights on Nile do not matter. Real cooperation cannot be built on exclusivity & monopoly. First, there must be acceptance of our claim/share. stop the bravado ..
@HanyIbrahim17@RenaissanceDam Even the 1959 Egy–Sud agreement itself clearly states that other riparian states can claim a share of Nile waters, and any allocation to them should come from Egypt and Sudan’s shares equally. no need to ask our share/water, we utilize it as we want with thousands of DAMS🤡
It is no secret that we disagree with what Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is saying here, as he attempts to turn the issue of the fair sharing of the Nile River waters into an identity battle through a Byzantine debate over agreements concluded during the Western colonial era in Africa. This is a grave mistake.
The issue is not "us versus them," but rather how we can all benefit without anyone dying of hunger or thirst. Egypt is ready for any cooperation that achieves prosperity for all, but it will never accept that the prosperity of one nation be built at the expense of another's survival.
This is not selfishness; it is a sovereign right and a humanitarian duty toward its people. Development, yes—but through cooperation and guarantees, not via unilateral dictates.
The 1959 agreement was signed between Egypt and Sudan as two completely independent states, and international law protects these rights, not just colonial legacy. If we were to accept the logic that "whatever colonialism established is null and void," then most current African borders would be abolished as well—yet no one is calling for that.
Egypt does not say, "The Nile belongs to us alone." Rather, Egypt says, "The Nile belongs to everyone, but through justice and coordination."
Furthermore, Egypt does not oppose Ethiopia generating electricity; in fact, it has offered technical assistance and funding in exchange for simple technical guarantees. However, it is the Ethiopian refusal to sign any binding agreement that creates the problem, not Egypt's historical rights.
The "shared prosperity" that Museveni speaks of is something Egypt actually practices as a founding member of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) since 1999. Egypt has signed electricity and water projects with Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and others, and has offered to fund irrigation and power projects in upstream countries in exchange for coordination.
The only ones refusing to cooperate are those who insist on absolute upstream rights without any commitment to the rights of downstream states.
And those are precisely the ones Museveni should be addressing, not us!
@khaledmahmoued1 Dear @khaledmahmoued1 . here is your 1959 'Us vs Them'. From 86% of water contribution of Abay (Ethiopia), how much shall be deducted? We will talk GERD's "technical issues" later🧐🧐.
@RenaissanceDam In my understanding he is saying that there will be no significant filling process like 1-4, but we will aquire little by little in the coming undisclosed years. Means "TRUMPS DEAL IS EFFECTIVE". the filling will take 7-10 years and the flow must be 37bm3+.