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2022.02.19 18:59 GMT+8

Ethiopia to generate electricity from Nile dam on Sunday

Updated 2022.02.19 18:59 GMT+8
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Workey Tadele, a radio operator, at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), near Guba in Ethiopia on December 26, 2019. /CFP

Ethiopia will start generating electricity from its controversial dam on the river Nile on Sunday, government officials told AFP on Saturday.

"Tomorrow (Sunday) will be the first energy generation of the dam," an Ethiopian government official told AFP giving the information that was confirmed by a second official.

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