{"id":7356,"date":"2020-01-09T08:50:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T05:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7356"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","slug":"power-starved-ethiopia-rallies-around-nile-dam-as-egypt-dispute-simmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/09\/power-starved-ethiopia-rallies-around-nile-dam-as-egypt-dispute-simmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Power-Starved Ethiopia Rallies Around Nile Dam As Egypt Dispute Simmers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Daily Nation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cell phone\nbatteries constantly dying, health centers bereft of modern equipment, a\ndependence on flashlights after sundown &#8212; Kafule Yigzaw experienced all these\nstruggles and more growing up without electricity in rural Ethiopia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Our\ncountry has a huge problem with electricity,&#8221; Kafule, 22, told AFP\nrecently while taking a break from reinforcing steel pipes that will funnel\nwater from the Blue Nile River to one of the dam&#8217;s 13 turbines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This\nis about the existence of our nation and, in my opinion, it will help us break\nfree from the bondage of poverty.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dam is\nexpected to begin producing energy by the end of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across\nEthiopia, poor farmers and rich businessmen eagerly await the more than 6,000\nmegawatts of electricity officials say it will ultimately provide. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/africa\/Ethiopia-rallies-around-Nile-dam-as-Egypt-dispute-simmers\/1066-5409092-r66gq2z\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation Cell phone batteries constantly dying, health centers bereft of modern equipment, a dependence on flashlights after sundown &#8212; Kafule Yigzaw experienced all these struggles and more growing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}