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Decided to start what I hope will become a thread series on African Geopolitics. Every week, let's discuss a different issue regarding the geopolitics of Africa and its diaspora. Hopefully, it's not too ambitious. The topic for his week is hydroelectricity and it's connection to geopolitics.
Ethiopia and the D.R. Congo are the case examples to jump this discussion off but by no means are we to be limited to those two countries.
Observations:
1. Ethiopia is seeking to make one of the foundations of its regional political power hydroelectricity.
2. Ethiopia is the source of the Blue Nile. It has massive amounts of hydroelectric potential because of its unique topography.
3. It plans to construct dams (including the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam) to provide cheap electricity.
4. Cheap electricity will power Ethiopia's industries and will cut down the structural costs for it be a manufacturing nation. If the manufacturing industry is labour-intensive, it will reduce poverty and employ people. This may lead to an increase in the country's wealth. It will also allow Ethiopia to export electricity to Sudan, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti, and Egypt.
5. Regional dominance in North-Eastern Africa is hard to decipher. Egypt appears to be the regional power but its head in the Arab World while its body is in Africa. Ethiopia has the potential to usurp it because if it control one of the sources of the Nile (due to dams), it can have Egypt by the balls. Sudan too.
6. Ethiopia is using electricity to make Northeastern Africa dependent upon her.
7. What is the Congo planning to do with its own hydroelectric potential. Its potential is so vast, it can power 40 per cent of Africa's need.
8. Is Congo also seeking to use its hydroelectricity in the same way to dominate the region? Or is it letting it's resources by siphoned away by players such as China, South Korea and South Africa? Bearing in mind that hydroelectricity in the Congo would allow it's copper industry to become productive again and could make conditions for the return of light industry feasible.
DR Congo waits on funding for world's largest hydropower project
@Poitier @KidStranglehold @bdizzle
Please tag others onto this thread, please.
Decided to start what I hope will become a thread series on African Geopolitics. Every week, let's discuss a different issue regarding the geopolitics of Africa and its diaspora. Hopefully, it's not too ambitious. The topic for his week is hydroelectricity and it's connection to geopolitics.
Ethiopia and the D.R. Congo are the case examples to jump this discussion off but by no means are we to be limited to those two countries.
Observations:
1. Ethiopia is seeking to make one of the foundations of its regional political power hydroelectricity.
2. Ethiopia is the source of the Blue Nile. It has massive amounts of hydroelectric potential because of its unique topography.
3. It plans to construct dams (including the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam) to provide cheap electricity.
4. Cheap electricity will power Ethiopia's industries and will cut down the structural costs for it be a manufacturing nation. If the manufacturing industry is labour-intensive, it will reduce poverty and employ people. This may lead to an increase in the country's wealth. It will also allow Ethiopia to export electricity to Sudan, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti, and Egypt.
5. Regional dominance in North-Eastern Africa is hard to decipher. Egypt appears to be the regional power but its head in the Arab World while its body is in Africa. Ethiopia has the potential to usurp it because if it control one of the sources of the Nile (due to dams), it can have Egypt by the balls. Sudan too.
6. Ethiopia is using electricity to make Northeastern Africa dependent upon her.
7. What is the Congo planning to do with its own hydroelectric potential. Its potential is so vast, it can power 40 per cent of Africa's need.
8. Is Congo also seeking to use its hydroelectricity in the same way to dominate the region? Or is it letting it's resources by siphoned away by players such as China, South Korea and South Africa? Bearing in mind that hydroelectricity in the Congo would allow it's copper industry to become productive again and could make conditions for the return of light industry feasible.
DR Congo waits on funding for world's largest hydropower project
@Poitier @KidStranglehold @bdizzle
Please tag others onto this thread, please.
