Ethiopia to Press Ahead With Africa’s Biggest Hydropower Dam

  • Construction of dam has stoked tensions with Egypt over water
  • Ethiopia has declared a state of emergency over coronavirus

Construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam near Guba, Ethiopia.

Photographer: Eduardo Soteras/AFP via Getty Images

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Ethiopia’s government vowed to continue work on a massive dam that’s stoked tensions with Egypt, even as the Horn of Africa nation contends with the growing spread of the coronavirus.