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Ethiopia opens huge dam despite outside opposition

Ethiopia opens huge dam despite outside opposition

Update: 2025-09-09
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Ethiopia opens Africa's largest hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile river deepening a rift with Egypt and Sudan.



Authorities in the US have arrested two suspected leaders of the Cameroon separatists' military wing. We find out more about the charges against the two men, and why Cameroon has been blighted by a conflict between armed separatists and government forces in the country's mainly anglophone North West and South West regions.



And following the canonisation of London-born teenager Carlo Acutis in a ceremony presided over by Pope Leo in Vatican City, what is the process of becoming a saint?



Presenter: Charles Gitonga

Producers: Mark Wilberforce, Sunita Nahar and Yvette Twagiramariya in London. Makouchi Okafor in Lagos and Jewel Kiriungi in Nairobi

Senior Producer: Patricia Whitehorne

Technical Producer: Nick Randell

Editors: Maryam Abdalla, Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi
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Ethiopia opens huge dam despite outside opposition

Ethiopia opens huge dam despite outside opposition

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