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LeadershipWWW.MSINGIAFRIKAMAGAZINE.COM | we tell the true afrikan story 10COMPLETED ETHIOPIAN GERDCan Power East African NationsBy Lawrence FreemanMy visit to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on May 16, 2025, was truly a wonderful experience. I was filled with happiness and optimism that this magnificent water-power infrastructure complex was nearly finished. The GERD is to be inaugurated in September, becoming the largest hydro-electric dam in Africa and seventeenth in the world. Construction was initiated a little over a decade ago and will be completed at a cost of almost five billion dollars, funded by the Ethiopian people themselves. It will have the capacity to generate 5,150 megawatts (MW) of electricity by capturing the flow of the Blue Nile emanating from Lake Tana. Having first visited the GERD in December