Ethiopia Major hydroelectric project in the Omo Basin will damage the lives of 200,000 indigenous people

An academic study of the 'fundamentally flawed' 2006 Environmental Impact Assessment of the planned Gibe III hydroelectric project in Ethiopia's Lower Omo River Basin suggests that Ethiopian institutions have made 'no effort to prevent or address the looming crisis' that the dam poses to the basin's 200,000 indigenous peopleAfrica Resources Working Group