The Foreign ministers yesterday backed calls for the United Nations Security Council to intervene in the prolonged GERD dispute.

Ethiopia has however today rejected the Arab league Resolution.

“The Arab League of States should know that utilization of the Nile waters is also an existential matter for Ethiopia.

“It is about lifting millions of its people out of abject poverty and meeting their energy, water and food security needs.

“Ethiopia is exercising its legitimate right to use its water resources in full respect of international law and the principle of causing no significant harm,” said Ethiopia’s foreign ministry

Ethiopia embarked on the construction of the GERD in 2011 hoping to produce electricity so as to relieve Ethiopia’s acute energy shortage and for electricity export to neighboring countries.

The massive gravity dam is almost complete and is expected to reach full generating capacity in 2023.

Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia have been embroiled in a prolonged state dispute following Ethiopia’s move to construct the GERD dam on the Nile River.

Egypt heavily relies on the Nile River for 90 percent of its fresh water. Both Sudan and Egypt have raised concerns that the Ethiopian project would limit its water supply.

The contentious dam is said to possibly be Africa’s largest hydroelectric power generator and seventh largest in the world.

Negotiations between the three countries have been unsuccessful prompting Egypt and Sudan to seek the intervention of the United Nations Security Council.

Both countries have issued dire warnings to Ethiopia’s peace and stability should the latter fail to strike a deal.

Ethiopia has however said it regrets the move by Sudan and Egypt to “unnecessarily politicize” the negotiations and turning it into an Arab issue.

The Arab League resolution had called on the United Nations Security Council to take necessary measures to launch an active negotiation process which will reach a deal in a specific timeframe.

NCWSC said it will implement the move in areas along Mombasa Road for 24 hours starting from 6:00 am Thursday June to 6:00 am Friday June.

The water company added that the disruption is to facilitate the interconnection of the new and old water pipelines on the Uhuru Highway between Museum Hill and the KBC area.

Areas which will be affected include: the whole of city centre, areas along Mombasa road, South Band South C and the neighbourhoods.

University of Nairobi main campus, Coca Cola Factory, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, EPZ-Athi River.

Areas along Jogoo road: City Stadium, Maringo, Bahati, Buruburu and the surrounding estates.

The whole of Industrial area will also be affected.

The construction of the Nairobi Expressway is one of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s infrastructural developments in his agenda.

the Expressway is a planned toll road in Kenya connecting Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to the neighborhood of Rironi, in Kiambu County along the Nairobi-Limuru Road.

The government hopes to complete the project buy end of 2021.

NIGERIA — Just hours after play store deleted his app, former presidential aspirant Adamu Garba has lost his account after Instagram deleted it following reports from some users.

“My account was reported by some users and disabled by instagram.” Said Garba

Two days ago, his microblogging platform dubbed Crowwe was deleted from Google Play Store. Some users insinuate that the app was taken down following bad reviews while others have blamed it on plagiarism.

“Google removes from the Play Store, applications that are perceived to have violated its policy.

“Once your app is removed, the published version of your app won’t be available on Google Play until a compliant update is submitted,” says Google policy report

The former politician has however rubbished the rumours saying he ordered Google to take down the app since it need an update.

Garba who is a staunch supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari has been on the receiving end for supporting Buhari’s move to ban twitter in Nigeria.

A week ago, Buhari banned twitter in the country after the social networking platform deleted one of his posts which seemed to be a threat to those vandalizing Nigeria’s electoral body offices.

In a move to show his support, Garba has since been inactive on twitter following the president’s ban.

Reason for deleting Garba’s account is not yet clear. However, Instagram bans accounts that violate its policy or those that report spam or fraud as well as fake accounts.

FLN is said to have secured 105 out of 407 seats in the Saturday elections which saw a historic lower turn out at 23%.

FLN’s win was unexpected since the party was considered as weak following its link with former ousted President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

Despite its win, the party is said to have lost 50 seats and controls less than a quarter of the new assembly; a significant decline compared to previous elections.

Independent candidates secured 78 seats with the country’s main islamist party, the Movement of Society of Peace (MSP) claiming 64 seats.

The Democratic National Rally (RND) which is also said to have links with the former president got 57 seats.

The elections which were held on Saturday saw a low voter turnout of only 5.6 million people out of 24 million eligible voters. The electoral body recorded over one million invalid votes.

Electoral commission chief Mohammed Chorfi assured that the elections were fair and corruption free.

“The foundations of this Parliament were built in freedom and transparency by the people,” said Mohamed Chorfi.

Snap parliamentary elections were held in Algeria on 12 June 2021 to elect all 407 members of the People’s National Assembly. Initially expected for 2022, the elections are being held early in the context of a constitutional amendment carried out by a referendum in November 2020.

In a message to its customers, MTN Nigeria informed of rising insecurity while acknowledging its services could be disrupted.

“Sadly, we must inform you that with the rising insecurity in different parts of Nigeria, service delivery to your organization may be impacted in the coming days.

“This means that in some cases, our technical support team may not be able to get to your site and achieve optimum turnaround time in fault management as quickly as possible.” said MTN Nigeria in its message.

Being the most populous nation in Africa with an estimated 209 million people as of 2019, Nigeria has the most lucrative market compared to the other 22 countries where MTN operates.

MTN runs Nigeria’s largest mobile phone which generates around a third of the company’s revenue.

However the country is plagued by escalating insecurities caused by communal violence, criminal gang attacks carrying out mass kidnappings and multiple insurgencies.

The country also faces food inflation and stalled reforms which have destabilized Nigeria’s economy.

Headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa MTN operates majorly in Africa including Nigeria. It also has a presence in Asia and the Middle East.