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Dec 2022
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Tanzania opens new dam to help power iss...

Bbc World Service
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Officials from Egypt and Tanzania are inaugurating the new Julius Nyerere Hydropower dam. The dam has a capacity of 2,115 MW and is set to become the largest in East Africa, and Africa’s fourth largest. It was built at a cost of US$3 Billion. The inauguration will see the first filling of the dam along the Rufiji River. Elsewhere Germany - Europe’s largest ... Show More
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