ADDIS ABABA, June 29 — Last week, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s press secretary took a break from official statements to post something different to her Twitter feed: a 37-line poem defending her country’s massive dam on the Blue Nile River. “My mothers seek respite/From years of...
A view of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam , near Guba in Ethiopia. The UN Security Council plans to meet on June 29, 2020 to discuss Egypt and Sudan’s objections to Ethiopia’s construction of a mega-dam on the Nile River. —AFP pic
But the project, set to become Africa’s largest hydroelectric installation, has sparked an intensifying row with downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan, which worry that it will restrict vital water supplies. To some observers, the dam offers a rare point of unity in an ethnically-diverse country undergoing a fraught democratic transition and awaiting elections delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.
Civil servants contributed one month’s salary towards the project that year, and the government has since issued dam bonds targeting Ethiopians at home and abroad. At recent events officials have even distributed T-shirts bearing the slogan to Ethiopian journalists, who proudly wear them around town.Anna Chojnicka spent four years living in Ethiopia working for an organisation supporting social entrepreneurs, though she recently moved to London.
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