Eyewitnesses reported to Ethiopian Review yesterday that Tekeze River in northern Ethiopia has flooded, raising suspicion that the recently completed hydro-power dam may have sustained damage. Some speculate that the Woyanne regime flooded the river to restrict movement in the area, which has seen intensified movements by Ethiopian resistance groups who are fighting against the brutal regime.
Normally, until the month of July, Tekeze’s water level is low. In the past few days, unexpectedly the river flooded causing some people who tried to cross it to drown.
The Woyanne regime is not willing to give out any information about the flood.
The Tekeze hydro-power project was inaugurated on November 14, 2009. It has the capacity to generate 300 MW electric power and was constructed at a cost of 3.9 billion birr. The project took seven year to complete.
In late January, the Gilgel Gibe hydro-power dam in southern Ethiopia stopped power generation when a part of its 26-kilometer tunnel collapsed.
6 thoughts on “Tekeze River flooded”
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From the start, I never had a good feeling about this dam. I wonder if I were the only one out there who ever thought that dam was built to flood and destroy Gonder province and the people in it.
They are cursed people ruining every thing they touch! may God be with us to strengthen the resistance force of Ethiopia, we pray and HELP!
Regards.
Wow weyane flooded yaki, yaki yada–It is the most primitive form of government that happens to this world. What else can you tell us. “weyane is preparing to do a fly by to pluto on the way to anedromeda star system”. What a waste.
I am not sure how it can possibly sustain a damage. It has an outlet called spillway for an overflow. And anyway they need to fill the containment area to the rim,all the way upstream until all the tributary rivers are to the maximum water level. May be that might have humpered crossing the rivers.
“The Tekeze hydro-power project was inaugurated on November 14, 2009. It has the capacity to generate 300 MW electric power and was constructed at a cost of 3.9 billion birr. The project took seven year to complete.”
When they started the job, they said, “It will cost maximum 2 billion birr and will be finalised with in two-three years work. It will generate 420 mw.”
Everything was a joke and children’s’ game. There is no any hydroelectric power throughout the world cost lots of resources like this to generate 300 mw while the landscape in Ethiopia is the best suitable place to build any dam including hydroelectric power.
As far as the flood concern. It must be the failure of the dam; again. They constructed the dam in a location where the land is very creaky, erosion is huge and landslide is occurring time to time. Or it could be true that the woyanes are playing their world-class known crime games against the people of the area as they are doing against the rest of Ethiopia. Using 95% food aid money and resources intended to Tigry for military purpose while the people they were saying fighting for them were dying from hunger, is a crime and telling how these woyanes are from the start deeply evil and cruel only for their own sake.
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The facts about “food aid and woyane” are known since long times a go despite BBC is now opening its very secretive dirty mind and purposely shutting its mouth about for years. BBC was the one played the Theatre with Geldof on the stage to damage the Ethiopian image motivated by hate on race. Would they behave the way they did against Ethiopia if it was an European nation? No. They would try to keep it in secret and do everything the solve the problem. They would sensor the picture they happily and intentionally did spread to the world choosing the worst and shocking image of the hungry, weak, innocent and faithful people. The 1984 drama was very organised, secretive and calculated move by western politicians and journalists using the international singers to spread easily and quickly the bad images about Ethiopia (blacks people) worldwide.
Because of Mengistu was calling them evil imperialists and other bad names including against Regan and Thatcher, all blacks including the Rastafarian were using Ethiopia as the symbol of Africa including her being the only black nation existed and having her own alphabet, mother of Egypt and so on, were the reasons the racists were so cruel against Ethiopia; using the hungry and weak as instruments to destroy including the black people image. They found woyane the best weapon to use them against Ethiopia as woyane had received 90% all aid money and resources came from the west including from the band-aid. And woyane used 95% it for military purpose against Ethiopians.
Bob Geldof need to know the truth behind about the real purpose of his so called aid band rather than denying the facts while pretending to defend woyane in order to defend himself. We all know what woyane did with the aid money and resources. Only little details were told by BBC. The truth is more than that and many outside players including from higher institutions were involved with it with primary goal, which is to topple Mengistu at any cost against Ethiopia and her beautiful and proud people.