Two-third of Ethiopia’s 110 million people does not have access to electricity and the Ethiopian Dam is expected to change that. Kifle Horo, GERG Chief Engineer and project manager (Photo : Screenshot from EBC video)borkenaThe Ethiopian government on Saturday announced that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is set to start generating electric power. Kifle Horo, chief engineer of the project of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, says it might take about two and half years to complete the project. Ethiopia, on the other hand, insisted that it is the African Union that should handle the mediation between the three countries. Eventually African Union was put in charge of the negotiation and it is not finalized yet.

Source: Ethiopian News February 20, 2022 06:40 UTC