Ethiopia: Dam Critics Won't Go Away
6 February, 2010 | IPS Correspondent
Ethiopia is building a 240-metre high dam on the Omo River that is
intended to end the country's electricity shortage and supply power
to neighbouring countries. Not everyone's happy.....More
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" Four 75 - megawatts generators and four turbines
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