China's role in funding Ethiopian dam
Kenyan environmental activists want the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to hold off on a promise to invest $500 million in Ethiopia’s $1.7 billion Gibe III Hydro-electric Dam, which they say threatens Lake Turkana – the world’s largest permanent desert lake, and a crucial source of water for half a million people.
The controversial dam is being built on the Omo Riverin eastern Ethiopia, which supplies the lake in northwestern Kenya with 90 per of its water. Once completed, the dam will affect the livelihoods of some 200,000 in the river valley and 300,000 more near the lake, the activists warn. By Fredrick Nzwili
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