Ethiopia's Grand Dam: Power, Pride, and the Nile's Contested Future

Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), highlighting its inauguration as Africa's largest hydroelectric project. Both sources emphasise the dam's monumental scale and engineering complexity, detailing its dimensions, construction materials, and power generation capacity. The BBC article focuses on the national pride and unity the project fostered within Ethiopia, despite diplomatic tensions with downstream countries like Egypt, and shares the personal experiences of an engineer and a nurse who contributed to its development. Conversely, the Webuild Group press release, as the dam's constructor, concentrates on the technical achievements, its role in Ethiopia's green energy transition, and the positive social and economic impacts created around the construction site. Both sources acknowledge the GERD's potential to significantly increase electricity access across Ethiopia, though the BBC piece also notes the substantial infrastructure work still required for widespread distribution.