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Gregory Holyoke

Troubled waters: Why is a Nile dam causing such tension?

When the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed opened the vast Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the country’s west on 9 September, he did not mince his words.

“This lake has brought with it a wealth greater than Ethiopia's GDP. This generation has accomplished a great deed with the Renaissance Dam. The era of begging has ended,” he told a group of assembled officials, media and some regional leaders.

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