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Africa’s tallest dam, the GIBE III dam in Ethiopia, will provide itself and neighbouring countries with much-needed electricity. Sean Avery explains how this will come at a high human and environmental cost – both in Ethiopia and across the border.

Racism and xenophobia are on the rise globally, and hatred is increasingly finding expression at schools and on university campuses. Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid argue that protecting and cultivating diversity in educational spaces is now more important than ever.

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A man hangs fish to dry on the western shore of Lake Turkana. Reuters/Goran Tomasevic

Fears over Ethiopian dam's costly impact on environment, people

Sean Avery, University of Leicester

Ethiopia's GIBE III dam has been labelled the world's most controversial dam due to environmental and social impacts and the displacement of indigenous people.

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