Could Mega Dam be Disastrous for East Africa?

The construction of the Gibe III Dam, the world’s fourth largest hydropower project, has raised concerns that more than half a million people’s livelihoods in Ethiopia and Kenya could be threatened.

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Sunset over a section of the Nile River (file photo).

  • Ethiopia:  Huge Dam Could Be Disastrous for Region (analysis)

    ThinkAfricaPress, 3 December 2012

    Without greater oversight, Ethiopia's secretive new dam could have disastrous environmental, social and political impacts. read more »

  • Kenya:  Impact of Ethiopia's Gibbe Dam Project (opinion)

    The Star, 15 January 2013

    We are species of self-professed fixers: our forbears domesticated plants and animals and liberated our kind from hunting and gathering; when natural capacity waned the genius of ... read more »

  • Ethiopia:  Panel Pushes Study On Nile Dam

    Sudan Tribune, 1 December 2012

    The international panel of experts asked by Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan to assess the impact of Ethiopia's controversial Nile dam project has continued its study despite fresh ... read more »

  • Ethiopia:  Nile Dam Worries Sudan, Egypt (analysis)

    AlertNet, 23 November 2012

    Ethiopia has begun construction of a 6,000 megawatt (MW) hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile river, a move that has been greeted enthusiastically by many Ethiopians but that is ... read more »

  • East Africa:  Enough in the Nile to Share, Little to Waste

    UN Integrated Regional Information Networks, 16 November 2012

    As Ethiopia's massive dam-building plans continue to cause disquiet in downstream Egypt, new research suggests there is sufficient water in the Nile for all 10 countries it flows ... read more »

  • East Africa:  Cross-Border Resource Management - How Do the Nile Countries Fare?

    This is Africa, 15 November 2012

    Countries are struggling to agree over the use of the Nile's water, raising questions about cross-border resource management. read more »

  • Africa:  Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan Agree On Water Co-operation

    Ethiopian Press Agency, 9 November 2012

    Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan have agreed to resume their tripartite cooperation under the Eastern Nile Basin. read more »

  • Kenya:  Nile Water Not Helping Farmers, Report Says (analysis)

    The Star, 8 November 2012

    The Nile Basin has enough water for agriculture but water management policies in its 11 countries risk locking out small-scale farmers, a new research has found out. read more »

  • Egypt:  Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia Experts Convene in Addis Ababa

    Egypt State Information Service, 6 November 2012

    Meetings of technical experts from Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia kicked off on Monday 5/11/2012 in the Ethiopian capital to set the agenda for meetings of the eastern Nile Basin water ... read more »

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  • gloing49
    Dec 4 2012, 22:47

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  • kevinnati
    Dec 4 2012, 09:49

    MR writer you claimed you have been studied the issue for the last 35 years ...well if it is true. but remember as an african think postive to the region...no one wana be poor forever ..ethiopia have the full right to use its natural resources with out any preconditions...no matter happen we will build it and see the out come..if any one cross the line we are independent peoples who knows how to defend our mother land like we did before....for the 3000 years.

  • geme ethio
    Jan 16 2013, 09:23

    this explanation of negative effects are direct reflection of the white Europeans who want to visit the traditional ingenious people who does not wear clothes and drink water from dirty wells. we Africans should not be tricked twice by this white peoples they already made us suffer in the era of their colony by armed power. now they are also coming in the form of intellectual and structural power they built to dismantle Africa. Apart from this all of you just do not forget that it is Ethiopia, if you do not remember anything go and ask Italians they will tell you all about this country.

  • adbecho2000
    Jan 17 2013, 09:36

    I love the way this article is written (from a jornalist stand point). It shows how to sling mud vehemently if you want to trash any thing you dislike. African journalist should learn from it how to write for purpose. That starts from the article by saying controversial. This dam has nothing controversial except angrying few old white guys living around Lake Turkana who lost their compitive adge for their planned wind farming and their California based friends. It goes on by saying that the environmental impact study is not upto standard. The reason is that the study was done by only Africans without involving any one non-African. Hence, it is not trustworthy!!! The world bank could not fund the project because few white men in Kenya and California has harassed the bank. They are more vocal than the more than 500,000 indiginious people who pledged for the construction of the dam and for the wise use of their resources. Africa wake up!!

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