Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)



Ethiopia mega-dam overcame war, funding obstacles

  • CEO of Webuild Pietro Salini: ‘This country that was dark in the evening when I first arrived here... is now selling energy to neighboring countries’
  • A brutal civil war between the government and rebels from the Tigray region between 2020 and 2022, which claimed roughly 600,000 lives, also slowed the GERD’S completion
By AFP ·