GERD Update:
Turbine milestone – Achieved ✅
The Renaissance Dam is at the finish line. The final and the last turbine (Unit 4, the 13th overall) entered wet-commissioning yesterday, with official commissioning imminent. It may take 15 days, but what’s next? Nothing. GERD is now 100% complete.
This is a once-in-a-generation milestone. The GERD chapter is closed once and for all. The next chapter begins immediately – MANDAYA DAM.
Spillway Gates
Now, let’s turn to today’s (This Morning) video: the gated spillway on the left bank, releasing a flawless white cascade – engineering and nature in perfect sync. GERD’s gated spillway crest sits about 625 m a.s.l., built for controlled, high-capacity releases during peak inflow.
How much water is that?
•. Full gated spillway (design): ~14,700 m³/s (≈ 1.27 billion m³/day).
•. Per gate (design head): ~2,450 m³/s – about one Olympic pool every second (~59/min; ~84,700/day).
(Actual flow depends on reservoir level and gate opening; these are design values.)
To picture it: at full design, the spillway could release ≈ 508,000 Olympic pools per day – a controlled torrent shaped by steel and concrete.
Or let’s put it in another perspective. If all 6 gates were open 24 hours a day for a full year, do you know how much water would be released?
You may not believe it, but it is about 463.8 billion m³/year (463.8 BCM/year).
Still not surprised? Then compare this with the annual flow of the Blue Nile and the storage of the Aswan High Dam:
• The entire annual flow of the Nile at Aswan is about 84 BCM/year on average.
• So the spillway design capacity (464 BCM/year if all six gates ran at full design continuously) is more than 5 times the entire Nile’s natural yearly flow.
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Ordinarily, it is pointless to debate with willful promoters of a dogmatic political agenda. But with the kind of tedious headlines whitewashing the real story about the Tigray War, it is a duty to set the record straight, without fear or favour.
The Tigray War WAS NOT a war of choice by Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed. It was a war brought upon the new reform government, even before it managed to properly sit down and govern.
Was a responsible national leader supposed to sit back and watch the same primitive forces who tormented nearly every nation and nationality in Ethiopia for 27 years to fight their way back to power, so they can finish their plan of Balkanizing the country?
If that was to be allowed, what was the purpose of toppling them in the first place? More than anything, defending the country against these forces was a call of duty, diligently answered!
And who is responsible for the damage that followed? Who is the victim here? Who is the vector of the violations? Who was the culprit of the horrendous crimes, destruction and looting in Afar, Dessie, Kombolcha, Qobo, all the way to Debrebirhan, during the war?
Enough with the bigotry, narrative bias, and playing victim by those most responsible for the most outrageous human rights violations this country went through in its recent history! And their domestic and international apologists!
"The question now is not whether Africa will rise, but when, and under whose leadership. Ethiopia stands ready to take the helm, and the time for Africa to define its future on its own terms has come."
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The board of Ethiopian Investment Holdings met today to assess Ethio Telecom’s @ethiotelecom readiness to go public and to evaluate the Capital Markets Authority's @CMAEthiopia progress in operationalizing the capital markets. The introduction of a stock market and exchange in Ethiopia is poised to be a game-changer, supporting Ethiopia in achieving its growth aspirations and attracting new capital. This marks an exciting chapter for the nation.
Under our five homegrown economic reform pillars of Agriculture, Manufacturing, Tourism, Mining and ICTs, #Ethiopia has immense potential and offers vast opportunities. Invest in #Ethiopia!
MILLION THANKS PM ABIY!
For transforming/revolutionizing 🚜🚜, turning the deserts into green valleys. From 5 hect in 2018 to 1.5 mill hect in 2023!! Per hect yield from 2 tons to 4 tons!
"#Ethiopia self-sufficient in wheat for 1st time in its history." Wow! 💚💛❤️ @PMEthiopia
Big news at the #G20 successfully hosted by #India:
1. The African Union, headquartered in #Ethiopia, became a member, finally.
2. India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) launched to rival China’s BRI.
Here’s my interview with Vikram Chandra on WION TV. #ThisWorld
Note: the background noise is courtesy of my son.
The developing world—particularly African countries are facing a cocktail of interconnected crises: a cost-of-living crisis, a financing crisis, a growth crisis, and a climate crisis.
To address these challenges, we need to work hard together to urgently upgrade the global financial architecture for development — with the Multilateral Development Banks at the center – the goal of the Paris Forum.
We can only tackle these issues head on if we implement reforms to strengthen the global financial architecture in the following areas:
First: Implement past pledges with resolve. We should keep past pledges in climate finance and on the rechanneling of Special Drawing Rights amounting to at least USD 100 Billion to MDBs such as the African Development Bank.
Second: other initiatives to increase access to liquidity should rise to the top of the agenda.
Third, we fully support the scaling up of the MDBs to push for faster progress on the SDBs and to tackle the challenge of adapting to climate change.
Fourth, we need more international cooperation to improve the debt restructuring process, when this becomes necessary. For Common Framework, we need immediate debt service suspension.
People and governments in Africa should listen to Eritrean President Isaias. They would have more confidence ,security , constant progress and would be more independent, that means no longer being slaves of Western NGOS
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