Deaths, dollars, disputes: Ethiopia's GERD mega dam

How many people died building Ethiopia's dam?
An Ethiopian magazine caused a stir after it reported that at least 15,000 people may have diedduring the construction of the nearly $5 billion (€4.2 billion) Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) over 14 years.

In an interview with DW, Ethiopian Water and Energy Minister Habtamu Itefa would neither confirm nor deny the claims.

"On the point about the numbers that are being quoted, the question is wrong, and the answer is also wrong. For information on this, you have to go to relevant institutions," Itefa told DW. 


The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is expected to be inaugurated on Tuesday, September 9


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