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Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour (C) speaks during a joint press conference with delegates from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan following another round of talks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project that has strained ties between Cairo and Addis Ababa in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on December 27, 2015. (AFP)

"Egypt, Ethiopia & Sudan reached consensus on the following steps on the GERD project in full commitment with the Declaration of Principles." Egyptian foreign ministry spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid wrote on his Twitter account a few minutes ago.

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What US intelligence predicted about Africa today 15 years ago, and how terribly wrong they were

Predictions on what Africa would look like in 2015 that experts got wrong, proving how easy it is to lose your shirt betting on the continent.

Every five years, the CIA’s National Intelligence Council meets government officials, scholars, business people and civil society representatives from all around the world, to get a feel of the trends likely to shape the world over the next 15 years. The Global Trends Report 2015, that envisions the world today, was published in 2000.

In 2005, another meeting convened by the National Intelligence Council this time focused on sub-Saharan Africa, to discuss the major drivers that would shape Africa into 2020, including demography, globalization, conflict, terrorism and HIV/Aids, their report was called Mapping Sub-Saharan Africa’s Future.

We look at some projection about Africa from both reports, and see what they got wrong:

“Over the next 15 years, Sub-Saharan Africa will become less important to the international economy.”

The CIA predicted that the high growth rate projected for the global economy from 2005 to 2020 would not be matched by African countries, which would fall far below the rates projected for the fast-growing East Asian nations.

In actual fact, the region’s economic growth has been faster than that of the world average since 2000, and even faster that East Asia until 2008. In 2013, seven of the ten fastest growing economies were African, and the region’s business opportunities are firmly on the international radar.

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http://mgafrica.com/article/2015-01-15-what-they-said-then-and-where-we-are-now/

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