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Reuters: More than 200,000 Ethiopians who rely on fishing and farming could become reliant on aid to survive if the government goes ahead with building Africa's biggest hydropower dam, an advocacy group said. Ethiopia is building the 1.4 billion euro dam as part of a campaign to beat power shortages and become a power exporter. The dam - Gibe III -- is expected to generate 1,800MW, almost doubling Ethiopia's current capacity of just under 2,000MW. Tribal rights group Survival ......
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Giant Ethiopian dam to make 200,000 go hungry: NGO
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 24th, 2010
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