Mehari Taddele Maru

The first and the second meetings between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on the GrandEthiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) ever to be led by the African Union (AU) took placeon June 26, 2020, and recently from 2-13 July 2020.On June 27, 2020, the AU issued a communiqué setting out the decisions of themeeting, which was called and ...

Original article at: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/4/26/can-trump-resolve-the-egypt-ethiopia-nile-dam-dispute/ In early February, officials from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan announced in a joint statement that they had cleared the way for the filling and operation of a disputed mega-dam being built by the Ethiopian government on the Nile River. The statement, which came on the back of months of US-led negotiations, caused many to believe the ...

Original Analysis at: https://studies.aljazeera.net/en/reports/africa-versus-coronavirus-four-much-needed-capabilities For many African countries, prevention of Coronavirus has no alterative as financial and structural demands of treatment far exceed capabilities. Without stricter measures, the infection curve will be exponential and flattening it will take a long time with more deaths. The spread of Coronavirus, COVID-19, has now hit almost all African ...

Original Analysis: https://studies.aljazeera.net/en/reports/emergence-another-african-conflict-egypt-ethiopia-and-geopolitics-renaissance-dam Mehari Taddele Maru Very few consider that despite the possibility of conflict or cooperation, such changes in the exploitation of the Nile River resources are due to changing relations and the need to address long-standing unfair and hegemonic approaches to trans-boundary resource sharing. The standoff between the Nile riparian countries Egypt, Sudan ...

Original article at: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/enlarging-context-covid-19-europe-and-africa/ Mehari Taddele Maru and Fabrizio Tassinari As the dust on the first brutal phase of the pandemic settles in Europe, containment of the pandemic cannot succeed through unilateral responses. In times of acute crisis such as the present one, it gives some solace to re-read the seminal book by the veteran ...

The paper analyses African-European diplomatic relations on migration. It looks closely at the ideas and practices that inform migration relations between the African Union and the European to explore wider links between migration diplomacy and migration governance to assess divergent African and European understandings of migration governance and the diffusion of migration issues into domestic ...

As contributed in Liz Ntonjira’s book, #YOUTHCAN https://youthcan.africa/ on August 29, 2020 @DrMehari Dear African Youth, When I saw the overwhelming youth participation during the worldwide and inclusive protests against the outrageous killing of George Floyd, I was moved to write this letter to share some of my views on the lessons that these events ...

Original article at: https://blogs.eui.eu/migrationpolicycentre/african-and-european-migration-diplomacy-a-checklist-and-suggested-future-direction/ @DrMehari While EU member states and citizens debate the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, it is clear that migration has been, is and will continue to be an integral part of the relations between African and European countries. A ‘strong external dimension’ takes a pride of place in the ...

Original analysis at https://www.ethiopia-insight.com/2020/05/18/the-limits-of-legal-solutions/ An inclusive caretaker government is a better option than a suspect constitutional interpretation process controlled by the incumbent Given that the World Health Organization says the coronavirus is here to stay and we must learn to live with it, partly as vaccines and treatments may take years, how can the need to safeguard our physical, ...

In-depth analysis posted in Addis Standard: https://addisstandard.com/in-depth-analysis-waiting-for-godot-pandemic-and-elections-in-ethiopia/ Addis Abeba, May 07/2020 – The Prime Minister of Ethiopia has just announced that the ruling party will stay in power until the next election.  Both the end of the Covid-19 and the polls are like waiting for Godot, and no one knows the arrival. In the absence of a constitutive ...