Ethiopia says mega-dam will be inaugurated within six months

During a question session in parliament in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told members that a multi-billion-dollar mega-dam will be inaugurated "in the next six months". 

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is deemed vital for the country's electrification programme. Ethiopia first began generating electricity at the $4.2-billion project, located in the northwest of the country in February 2022. At full capacity, the huge dam could generate more than 5,000 megawatts of power. 

That would make it Africa's biggest hydroelectric dam and more than double Ethiopia's current output.