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Ethiopia’s Nile dam project signals its intention to become an African power | Global development | The Guardian

▻http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jul/14/ethiopia-grand-renaissance-dam-egypt

via Pierre Ageron sur Twitter

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The 4x4 roars off, kicking up a cloud of dust. With one hand on the wheel, the other stifling a yawn, Semegnew Bekele could do this trip with his eyes shut. A construction engineer, he has driven down this track at every hour of the day or night over the past three years. “Ordinary people are building an extraordinary project,” he says. He is referring to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance dam (Gerd), in the north-west corner of the country close to the border with Sudan. Four hours away from the town of Assosa more than 8,500 workers and engineers are labouring on a massive project to harness the waters of the Blue Nile.

#ethiopie #eau #barrage #afrique #infrastructures

Très beau #film #documentaire vu hier au #FIFDH à Genève :
#BEATS_OF_THE_ANTONOV Trailer

The separation of Sudan into two sovereign states has not prevented the longest civil war in the African continent from raging on to this day. The inhabitants of the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountain regions, having fought for the independence of South Sudan, continue to fight for their cultural, ethnic, social, and economic rights. With Beats of the Antonov, director Hajooj Kuka provides an inspiring account of how cultural heritage and creative traditions can defy the indignity of displacement.

Kuka has been documenting the farmers, herders, and rebels of the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountain areas since October 2012. For the past two years, they have had to assemble in mountain hideouts and refugee camps to find shelter from air raids waged by the Sudanese government, which targets civilians indiscriminately using Russian-made Antonov cargo planes. After a raid, it is not unusual to hear laughter and music ring out from these communities — not just out of relief that lives have been spared, but also as a means of safeguarding the community’s collective memory.

Beats of the Antonov focuses on the everyday survival of people who have lost kin, homes, and livelihoods in the ongoing conflict, but instead of devastation and defeat, we discover communities emboldened to celebrate their heritage, and to improvise creative ways to continue harvesting crops and herding cattle. With inspiring lucidity, Kuka threads together the voices — speaking and singing — of militants, social workers, intellectuals, and other everyday folk, to reverse conventional representations of victimhood and reveal an alternative narrative of tenacity and resilience.

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►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K797ysGoAt4

Ethiopian refugees face dam backlash in Egypt

Persecuted ethnic Oromo demand UN protection amid xenophobic attacks and government hostility over the Blue Nile dam.

▻http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2013/06/201361711365644208.html

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#réfugiés #asile #migration #Egypte #Ehiopie #Oromo #xénophobie #racisme