A hydro-power project on the Tekeze Dam.
Ethiopia Digs in Heels on Hydro-Power Dam
The country is proceeding with the construction of the U.S.$2 billion Gibe III dam despite widespread opposition and possible environmental damage.-
Ethiopia: Gibe III - a Dam Too Far?
RNW Africa, 20 December 2011
Michael Irgiena doubts if his ten children will ever be fishermen like him, or have any future living on the shores of the world's largest desert lake Turkana in the barren border… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Tribesmen Fear Forced End to 'Backward' Lifestyle
RNW Africa, 21 December 2011
"We are a dying people," says Gorgis, a cattle herder from the Bodi tribe who lives in the bush near Hana town in South Ethiopia, home to the semi-nomadic Mursi and Bodi tribes. Read more »
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Ethiopia: Government Crackdown in Omo Region Intensifies
Survival International, 3 November 2011
Survival has received disturbing reports of a crackdown on tribal people opposed to Ethiopia's program to remove them from their lands in the Omo region and force them to resettle… Read more »
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Ethiopia: UN Demands Urgent Answers From Govt Over Gibe III Dam
Survival International, 13 October 2011
The UN's growing concern over Ethiopia's construction of the controversial Gibe III dam has prompted it to demand urgent information from the African state. Read more »
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Ethiopia: 100 Indigenous Activists Arrested
CISA, 7 October 2011
Survival International say they have received reports that around one hundred Ethiopian tribes people have been arrested and jailed for opposing Ethiopia's controversial Gibe III… Read more »
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Sudan: Ethiopian Officials Reject UN Calls to Suspend Controversial Dam Project
Sudan Tribune, 12 August 2011
Ethiopian officials have dismissed a call by a UN's World Heritage Committee to halt the construction of Gilgel Gibe III power plant project. The project team defended the dam on… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Country's 'Bulldozer' Government Arrests 100 Tribal People Over Dam
Survival International, 6 October 2011
Survival has received reports that around one hundred Ethiopian tribes people have been arrested and jailed for opposing Ethiopia's controversial Gibe III dam. Read more »
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Ethiopia: International Condemnation of Controversial Dam Grows
Survival International, 19 August 2011
Kenyan MPs and the UN's World Heritage Committee have called on Ethiopia to halt construction of the controversial Gibe III dam on the Omo River. Read more »
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Kenya: Tame 'Hostile' Ethiopia And Stop Dam, Say MPs
Nation, 10 August 2011
Kenya's MPs have waded into a diplomatic land mine accusing Ethiopia of being a hostile State. Read more »
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Kenya: MPs Protest Ethiopian Dam
The Star, 10 August 2011
Parliament now wants the president and Prime Minister to push the Ethiopian government to stop the construction of the massive Gibe 3 hydropower dam on River Omo. Read more »
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Ethiopia: Nation Continues Dam Construction Over UN Objections
Addis Fortune, 8 August 2011
The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) has rejected calls by UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, urging Ethiopia to immediately halt all construction on the Gilgel Gibe… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Hundreds of Groups Sign Petition Against Huge Dam
Sudan Tribune, 30 March 2011
Some 400 organizations from across the world have signed a petition against the construction of Ethiopia's multi-billion dollar Gibe III Dam project, Survival International has… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Groups Protest, Seeking China's Pullout From Controversial Dam
Sudan Tribune, 21 February 2011
International environmental groups, members of civil society and other concerned individuals on Sunday held a protest in Kenya to petition the Chinese government against financing… Read more »
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Ethiopia's Gibe III dam will make it very difficult for indigenous farmers and fishers to sustain their livelihoods, writes the Worldwatch Institute. Read more »
