Ethiopia: GERD contract lost, reforms gained
- August 28, 2018
- - 3:46 pm
Summary The Abiy Ahmed administration canceling of the electromechanical works on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is to ensure a technically capable team complete the job. The contract cancellation compromises ethnic Tigray interests in the country’s Metals and Engineering Corporation who held the contract, but imperatives of economic and political reform within the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) will constrain possible backlash when the ruling alliance convenes its leadership congress next month. Analysis The decision by the Abiy Ahmed administration to cancel August 27 the contract for electromechanical work being done on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project …
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