Generating electric power by dams. How politically incorrect. I would have thought that the UN and the US environmentalists would have insisted that Ethopia use only windmills and solar collectors to develop and move into the 21st century.
It seems that hydro dams and coal fired plants are still needed to modernize a country and provide relatively inexpensive and RELIABLE electrical energy.
It is quite possible that the US refused funding due to those “environmental concerns”. The Chinese have no such precious scruples.