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With the rainy season approaching, tensions are once again rising among Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan over the giant Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) that Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile, just before it flows into Sudan.
Addis Ababa is preparing for its second filling of the dam when the rains come in June or July. Yet no resolution of the bitter dispute about the operation of the dam, being built to power a 6,450 MW hydroelectric generator plant, is in sight. On the contrary, Sudan and Egypt have just proposed another significant change in their protracted negotiations about how to manage the water flows from the 74 billion cubic metre dam.
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration-designate, has requested Spain to support Ghana’s candidature for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations (UN) Security Council for the period 2022 to 2023.
She also urged Spain to support Ghana s candidature for membership of the UN Board on Narcotic Drugs for the period 2022 to 2025 as well as for membership of the International Narcotics Control Board for the period 2022 to 2027.
She further requested Spain to support Ghana to meet its commitment under the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
Madam Ayorkor Botchwey made the appeal on Friday, when Madam Cristina Gallach Figureas, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain, paid a courtesy call on her in Accra.
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The massacre of Ibrahimi Mosque
A candle light vigil for the Palestinians killed by Israeli settler Baruch Goldstein at Hebron s Ibrahimi Mosque in 1994 [Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty Images] February 27, 2021 at 12:49 pm
Twenty-seven years ago, on 25 February, 1994, an Israeli settler named Baruch Goldstein shot at hundreds of Palestinians gathering for
Al-Fajr prayer at the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied city of Hebron.
Goldstein took advantage of the gathering of the worshippers in the prostration position and the closure of the mosque s doors by the occupation soldiers, to kill 29 Palestinians and wound more than 150 others.
The massacre did not end until the Israeli forces shot at the attendees of the victims funeral, raising the death toll of the massacre to 60.