{"id":277542,"date":"2019-05-30T09:11:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T13:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiaGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZWFmcmljYXJlcG9ydC5jb20vMTM1MzMvZ3Jvd3RoLXByb3NwZWN0cy1odXJ0LWFzLWV0aGlvcGlhLXN0cnVnZ2xlcy10by1rZWVwLXRoZS1saWdodHMtb24v0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:28:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:28:33","slug":"the-africa-report-said-power-rationing-was-hurting-ethiopias-growth-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277542","title":{"rendered":"The Africa Report said power rationing was hurting Ethiopia\u2019s growth prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 The Africa Report wrote that Ethiopia\u2019s power-rationing schedule would keep households and heavy industry struggling until July because of dam maintenance problems and low water levels.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-277392\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Koysha-Hydroelectric-project-workers-voice-grievances.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Africa Report said power rationing was hurting Ethiopia\u2019s growth prospects\" \/>\n<p>Water and electricity minister Seleshi Bekele said Gibe III\u2019s water had fallen more than 16 meters year-on-year, creating a deficit of about 476MW against roughly 1,400MW of then-available generation, while Tekeze and Ashegoda also underperformed.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia cut power exports to Djibouti by half and suspended exports to Sudan, after earning about $80 million from those sales the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as energy and economy archive, the Africa Report file dates the May\u2013July 2019 blackout crisis under Abiy Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theafricareport.com\/13533\/growth-prospects-hurt-as-ethiopia-struggles-to-keep-the-lights-on\/\">The Africa Report<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growth prospects hurt as Ethiopia struggles to keep the lights on&nbsp;&nbsp;The Africa ReportEthiopia has instituted a power-rationing schedule that will see domestic users continue to suffer blackouts every day and heavy industries work with fewer sh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":277392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Koysha-Hydroelectric-project-workers-voice-grievances.jpg?fit=475%2C266&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1acu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277542"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754971,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277542\/revisions\/754971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}