Ethiopia inaugurates $4.5B Africa’s largest dam

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Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday has inaugurated the $4.5 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), the largest hydroelectric project in Africa, in a ceremony attended by regional leaders and foreign dignitaries. Launched in 2011 under the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, the project on the Blue Nile is designed to generate 5,150 megawatts of electricity to ease chronic shortages and