Ethiopia's Dam will turn Lake Turkana into an endless battlefield

Please do not call a whole community primitive

just like a cockroach can even survive a nuclear holocaust

Did someone say the water was salty?

Propaganda za wageni hizi. They are feeling the heat because there won’t be a need of their aid dollars for electricity generation via diesel.

"Mimi ni Mwanakenya, daima!
"Na nikeinda ng’ambo nitarudi,
"Mimi ni Mwanakenya, daima!
"Na sitadanganywa na wageni
"Mimi ni Mwanakenya, daima!
"Wala sitapotoshwa na wabaya
"Mimi ni Mwanakenya, daima!

"(wenzangu…)
“Kenya kipenzi changu, na sitaiacha milele daima…”

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Madam, this article is now two years old and it is now one and a half years since operations were expected to begin. Is Turkana now an ‘endless battlefield’?

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Wouldn’t desalination be a valid investment given the huge size of the acquifer?

Costs. It doesn’t come cheap.

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Electricity ni noma, even the Gulf states with their deep pockets are feeling its pinch

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oil wells have water too. Tullow agreed that all the water and gas will be pumped to the Turkana residents