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Engineers in Ethiopia

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By Section Editor in Sci/Tech | February 2, 2012 | Views: 2 Engineers Without Borders (EWB) in Ethiopia in August 2011. EWB members travelled to Ethiopia funded by a Project for Peace grant from the Davis Foundation to study well systems in remote ...

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2/3/2012 via Google News in Science (Ethiopian energy)
Agresso Business World Chosen to Support Water Improvement Initiative in Ethiopia

Agresso Business World Chosen to Support Water Improvement Initiative in Ethiopia
Sacramento Bee
Addis Ababa Water is responsible for maintaining and improving the water supply in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and is undertaking an ambitious project to modernize the systems it has in place to achieve its objectives and better meet demand for clean ...
AGRESSO Business World Chosen to Support Water Improvement Initiative in EthiopiaNewsMaker (press release)

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1/11/2012 via Google News in Science (Ethiopian drought, Ethiopian drought)
Ethiopian Electric Power to Build Six Wind Power, One Geothermal Plants

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November 27, 2011 - The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCO) plans to construct six wind power projects and one Geo Thermal Power Plant, according to Capital. The new projects will have a capacity of 1015 Mega Watts (MW) power. ...
11/27/2011 via Google News in Science (Ethiopian energy)
Ministry to Host Electricity Resources Database for Public

Following the completion of the first phase of the Energy Sector Mapping & Database Development (ESMAD), the Ministry of Water & Energy (MoWE) is to install two servers to host the national database and make it available to the public.

11/13/2011 via Addis Fortune in Science (Ethiopian energy)
Addis Gets New Model The first phase of the construction of the model of Addis Abeba, made by the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building & Construction Management (EiABC) at a cost of 1.3 million Br is to be delivered to the Urban Planning & Information Institute (UPII) at the end of this month.
10/16/2011 via Addis Fortune in Science (Construction)
Geologists map birth of new ocean in Afar in east Africa's Great Rift Valley - Herald Sun

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Geologists map birth of new ocean in Afar in east Africa's Great Rift Valley
Herald Sun
A GIANT underground reservoir of molten rock has been discovered under the deserts of Ethiopia by British geologists. They targeted the Afar region in the Horn of Africa after a recent surge in volcanic activity and earthquakes plus the appearance of ...
Geologists Map Birth Of New OceanFOX 4 News

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10/3/2011 via Google News in Science
Wind energyprojects gaining momentum By Elias Gebreselassie
15 wind tower generators with a capacity to generate 15 Mega watts of electricity, part of the 51 Mega Watts Adama I  wind farm project are set to be installed starting from October 15, 2011 with an initial power generation expected to start in December 2011.
Gossaye Mengiste director of energy studies and development follow up at the Ministry of Water and Energy (MoWE) stated: ‘The wind power project is cheaper in economies of scale and takes little space to install compared to the generators that the country uses in times of power shortages. We are expecting

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9/14/2011 via Capital Ethiopia in Science
Ethiopian HERQA shuts 5 colleges

By Mulugeta Demissie
The Higher Education Relevance and Quality Agency (HERQA) board on September 5 decided to close five colleges based on an investigation conducted over the past year to identify and determine the levels of Ethiopian higher educational institutions. The agency has investigated 75 institutions which took legal accreditation in late 2010 and found 57 qualified and 18 unqualified institutions. The group went to the compounds of the institutions and collected information to categorize colleges in three levels. The investigation process took place in the main and branch campuses of 75 colleges around the country. The investigating group included experts

9/14/2011 via Capital Ethiopia in Science (Ethiopian education system)
Non-Profit university opens

Capital Ethiopia
Mulugeta Demissie
A new non profit university college opens having 5 faculties in business and computer science at Lebu, Addis Ababa in August 2011 with over 90 million birr capital. Even though the construction process was slow and late for over a year because of lack of construction materials, the university college is now completed by Jing Su International Construction Company after four years on a 50,000 square meters of land leased from Addis Ababa City Government. According to Behailu Abebe (PhD), administration and financial affairs vice president of Hope University College, they will accept interested applicants in the fields

9/5/2011 via Capital Ethiopia in Science (Ethiopian education system)