ITALIANS BUILD DAM IN ABYSSINIA AS WAR REPARATIONS—The Koka dam. which is being built near Addis Ababa by Italian engineers as part of Italy’s war reparations to Abyssinia. The estimated cost is £4,500,000. The dam will have a two-fold purpose—irrigation and the supply of hydro-electric power. It will irrigate the cotton-growing Awash Valley, and it should double Abyssinia’s electricity supplies. The dam’s first unit is expected to be in operation in 1960.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28742, 13 November 1958, Page 23
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72ITALIANS BUILD DAM IN ABYSSINIA AS WAR REPARATIONS—The Koka dam. which is being built near Addis Ababa by Italian engineers as part of Italy’s war reparations to Abyssinia. The estimated cost is £4,500,000. The dam will have a two-fold purpose—irrigation and the supply of hydro-electric power. It will irrigate the cotton-growing Awash Valley, and it should double Abyssinia’s electricity supplies. The dam’s first unit is expected to be in operation in 1960. Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28742, 13 November 1958, Page 23
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