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Africa’s New Friend China Financing $9.3 Billion of Dams for Hydropower

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09/11/11

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Categories: Business, Ethiopia, Energy

Africa’s New Friend China Financing $9.3 Billion of Dams for Hydropower

Africa’s New Friend China Financing $9.3 Billion of Dams for Hydropower

When completed in 2013, Gibe III on Ethiopia’s Omo River will be Africa’s tallest dam, a $2.2 billion project that conservationists say will deprive birds and hippos of vital habitat.

Some 600 miles (965 kilometers) to the north, Sudan is preparing to build the $705 million Kajbar dam on the Nile, which would inundate historic towns and tombs of the Nubian people, descendants of the pharaohs of ancient Egypt. The $729 million Bui project on the Black Volta River, to be finished in 2013, will boost Ghana’s hydropower capacity by a third -- and flood a quarter of Bui National Park while displacing 2,600 people.


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15 comments

Comment from: Ali [Visitor]
That's why Uncle Sam is mad at China. It is not supposed to help Africans see the light at the end of the tunnel. The white man wants to perpetuate the Dark Continent label he put on us (Remember the Economist magazines's cover pic of 1999 edition?).
09/11/11 @ 21:49
Comment from: Cheap [Visitor]
Cheap woyane propaganda inorder to fool the people and win time ofcourse
09/12/11 @ 00:34
Comment from: zemen [Visitor]
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@ Ali : you mean uncle Obama or sam I just got confisued ....
09/12/11 @ 05:50
Comment from: Ras Thomas [Visitor] Email
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Hail to China !!!!! The new super power which will enpower Africa to share their resources with those who used to monopolize it. Ethiopia the water of Africa will be rich and African super power soon. We will be Saudi Arabia of electric energy in near future. Japaness,German,Chiness, and the American companies will came to Ethiopia to built their factories in Ethiopia. Because we have two most important things they are l looking for cheap energy and cheap labour. our people will all have jobs they need. that is the way China itself was devoloped. Who made that possible? Ethiopia building big dams. that was what our enemies was stopping us for last sixty years. War with Somalia in 1977/78 and trouble we with this Eritria and Somalia from 1960s up to now was about the our water. both Eriteria and Somalia was working for Egypt and other Arabs. now who cutt the chains and able to make possible for us free to build? not any other perevoius leader but MALES ZANAAAAAAAAAWI MALES ZANAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWI Hey!!! Ethiopians, those who hate and those who love and even those who are neutrals. let give man a credit. of exactly what he is doing. or just sing as usually Wayaaaaani, Wayaaaani, like sheep or donkey is voice. is that only what you know.let us be a human. and remember if you did not give one of your citizen his rights of what he did or she did. it will happen to you, that you will not get the rights that you need. I mean if we deny Males a credit he deserve as a Ethiopian citizen who fulfilled his duty. then each of us his or her rights will be denied.
09/12/11 @ 15:03
Comment from: koster [Visitor]
Mussoloni, Hitler and Stalin were also good at building dams. SAY NO TO STATE TERRORISM IN ETHIOPIA:

"Politicians are like diapers, they should be changed periodically for the same reason" - Ronald Lauder

20 years of Meles/Woyane looting and killing is enough. ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
09/12/11 @ 15:10
Comment from: wendachew [Visitor]
cheap, really you are cheap you have got a good name, what is wrong with the aid ? and the dam Too.
09/12/11 @ 17:23
Comment from: Berhanu [Visitor]
I am afraid very soon we would begin having breeds of Ethio-Chinese generation. One of my Chinese friends father got a 19yr old Habesha pregnant and is denying responsibility of the pregnancy. Just like we have alot of light skin Habeshas courtesy of the Italians mass impregnation of our women causing a widespread of "mullatos" so will it be with the Chinese invasion except that we'd soon begin eating squids, snakes, frogs and the likes...I welcome the idea of development but I fear that we may end up being a slave for these Chinese people who would soon import their educated minds to take over the technological advancement if there be any in the new future...Education people, education!!! Don't get too excited just yet...
09/12/11 @ 20:01
Comment from: DEMELASH [Visitor]
CHEAP TPLF PROPAGANDA TO STAY IN POWER,


FOR SURE YOU WILL NOT BUILD ANY
THING,
09/13/11 @ 06:51
Comment from: C"moi senait [Visitor]
Big dept,economy crises,unemployement etc...that is spreading like a wild california fire around the western world from greec , spain and now to itali has become a contigeouse economy virus and the only REMEDY the world found is CHINA as it is the last pill to save them.
Every wester and poor countries are now selling their souls to china . China is now rich and every one is quing to borrow money and bend down to them.
This is what i call it.( a 21 century economical prostitution) where nations offers their vergin to rich merchants...?
09/13/11 @ 15:49
Comment from: munire [Visitor]
poor peopel is allwaye have poor thinking i am from somale lalnd i realy admire eprdf goverment we have big hope we need to buy power from ethiopia . the news is welcome in somaland i wish my goverment did this project
09/14/11 @ 22:07
Comment from: dawit [Visitor]
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Long live China! All countries of Africa should tighten their relationship with China. We know that China wants a true and mutual relationship with African countries as opposed to the west. The west does not want to see a developed Africa as it will make it very difficult for them to intervene. We know that intervention is the major foreign policy of American imperialists. Africans should work together in order to neutralize intervention.
09/15/11 @ 02:09
Comment from: david [Visitor]
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We need to prevent western hegemony from our continent by aligning with China and other easterners as well as middle eastern countries. If one African country comes under attack all other African countries should come to help. We should not let happen again what happened in Libya.
09/15/11 @ 03:32
Comment from: Dina [Visitor]
The US still gives way more to Africa than China does. Esecially in charitable donations. China (being one of the most racist countries on earth), is more focus on how they can profit from Africa.

They was to sell their products in Africa, they want to finance projects so that future profits go back to China, they want to loan money to African government so they can be in debt to China.

Anyone to since that China is trying to help Africa out of kindness is a fool.
09/15/11 @ 09:03
Comment from: Your papa [Visitor]
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Yo listen up all you racist mother lover . I don't care if you oromoo , Tigre , amara, or whatever the f***** you are . Like my boy said you need to respect what he is doing for the country . We are claiming out right by doing that . I am not even Tigre but what meles doing is something you can't deny unless you are stupid . Helping young kids start there own business , road construction , the abay thing right now and so many thing . The killing thing y'all talking about is bulshit . So let's be one and work together moma Ethiopia needs us. Learn from america black, white, yellow and brown working together made her the most powerful country in the world. So brother and sisters let's stop the hating . I bet the one that talk hate on here must go to his church or mosque to pray for his god or alah but once you are not there the devel takes over your soul and start hating .so please stop stop stop
09/15/11 @ 13:24
Comment from: Dina [Visitor]
Meles and his government has done many good things for Ethiopia. However, no amount of good deeds excuse the evil that they have also done.

To encourage people to ignore the evil actions that the government has done will just open the doors for the government to do them again. For corruption, murder, and oppression to continue.

I agree that government should be praised when they do good. But we should also hold them accountable when they do something evil.

Pointing out the evil done is not wrong, and does not make someone racist, and has nothing to do with which ethnic group a person belongs to.
09/16/11 @ 10:31

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