Ethiopia 'a dam of contention': Ethiopia's controversial Gibe III dam is going ahead amidst conflicting views from local people and international critics. Our correspondent, Kate Eshelby, has recently returned from there and reports that while the local people think the dam will destroy their way of life, the Ethiopian government says it will bring electricity and progress. Who is right and who is wrong? Read it all here.

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Ethiopia 'a dam of contention': Ethiopia's controversial Gibe III dam is going ahead amidst conflicting views from local people and international critics. Our correspondent, Kate Eshelby, has recently returned from there and reports that while the local people think the dam will destroy their way of life, the Ethiopian government says it will bring electricity and progress. Who is right and who is wrong? Read it all here.

It's better to kill us first, Olikoro says; an AK-47 rests by his side and a vision of his future screeches in his eyes. Olikoro, a man from Ethiopia's Mursi ethnic group, talks about the Gibe III dam: the latest in a cascade of dams being built on the Omo River in south-west Ethiopia.

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The Omo River begins its 500-mile journey in Ethiopia's emerald highlands and drops through steep gorges to a sun-scotched valley before twisting towards the turquoise jewel of Lake Turkana in Kenya.

In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, the dam seems essential for progress. Bur trav...

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