Egypt/Ethiopia: Power-Starved Ethiopia Rallies around Nile Dam as Egypt Dispute Simmers

Jan 7, 2020 | Robbie Corey-Boulet, Tech Xplore
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Cell phone batteries constantly dying, health centres bereft of modern equipment, a dependence on flashlights after sundown—Kafule Yigzaw experienced all these struggles and more growing up without electricity in rural Ethiopia. So five years ago, he leapt at the chance to work on a project designed to light up his country and the wider Horn of Africa region: the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a 145-metre-high, 1.8-kilometre-long concrete colossus that is set to become the largest hydropower plant in Africa.