Africa’s largest dam to lift Ethiopia out of poverty

ADDIS ABABA — In the western fringe of Ethiopia on the banks of the Blue Nile river, the nation’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi thundered that the country would overcome all obstacles to complete Africa’s largest hydropower plant.

“No matter how poor we are, in the Ethiopian traditions of resolve, the Ethiopian people will pay any sacrifice,” he said. “I have no doubt they will, with one voice, say: ‘Build the Dam!’”