Huge Auglo-Egyptian Development Scheme in Heart of Africa
(11 a.m.) CAIRO, 9. Britain and Egypt have agreed to cooperate in the first step of a gigantic programme to develop electric power in the heart of Africa, to control the Nile floods and to prevent • future famines, says the Associated Press correspondent. I The Egyptian Cabinet has announced its decision to join the British’ protectorate of Uganda in the building of a £12,000,000 dam at Owen FdUs, more than 2000 miles south of Cairo. This dam is intended to store water in Lake Victoria, develop electricity for the Uganda, and permit Egypt to reclaim additional farmland from the desert along the Nile. Cabinet said that Egypt would contribute about £4,500,000 towards the project and Uganda about £7,500,000.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19490210.2.80
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22867, 10 February 1949, Page 5
Word Count
126Huge Auglo-Egyptian Development Scheme in Heart of Africa Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22867, 10 February 1949, Page 5
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.