Prime minister inaugurates electricity production from the country’s often controversial multibillion-dollar Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
A satellite image shows the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia, July 12 2020. Picture: MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES/REUTERS
After flicking a digital switch to turn on the turbines in the first phase of the project, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sought to assure those nations that his country did not wish to harm their interests. Abiy’s government says the project is key to its economic development, but Egypt and Sudan depend on the waters of the Nile and have worried it will affect them.
The first violations of the initial agreement related to the filling of the dam, the ministry said in a statement on Sunday.Ethiopia, the second most populous country on the continent, has the second biggest electricity deficit in Africa according to the World Bank, with about two thirds of the population of about 110-million lacking a connection to the grid.
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