News Briefs for March 11, 2015 – Multi-national Affairs

March 12, 2015 by

News from different sources: Ethiopia builds Africa’s largest dam, African countries fight Boko Haram, and more.

  • Ethiopia’s $5bn project that could turn it into Africa’s water powerhouse. Grand Renaissance Dam is under construction on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia. It is claimed it will generate 6,000 MW of energy when completed. (CNN)
  • Neighbors of Nigeria take on Boko Haram. Troops from Chad and Niger launched an offensive against Boko Haram militants in neighboring Nigeria. Two columns of military vehicles carrying soldiers from Niger and Chad moved into Boko Haram’s stronghold in Nigeria’s Borno State on Sunday, consolidating control over two frontier towns, Damasak and Malam Fatori. (The New York Times)
  • Assad is worse than Serbia’s Milosevic, Liberia’s Charles Taylor: US envoy. US ambassador-at-large for war crimes also warns that Justice for Syria’s victims could take decades. (i24news).
  • Twenty years after 189 countries adopted a blueprint to achieve equality for women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said in an interview with The Associated Press that not a single country has reached gender parity and equality. (Aljazeera America)

 

 

 

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