{"id":278793,"date":"2019-06-13T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=49124c324c2bc57f80a5853e46e4c1b1"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:31:20","slug":"the-guardian-said-a-us-study-warned-omo-valley-communities-faced-hunger-under-dam-and-sugar-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278793","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian said a US study warned Omo Valley communities faced hunger under dam and sugar projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 June 2019 The Guardian reported that the California-based Oakland Institute said Africa\u2019s tallest dam and irrigated sugar plantations were \u201cwreaking havoc\u201d in southern Ethiopia\u2019s lower Omo Valley and that tens of thousands of people faced starvation and conflict as river flows and grazing land changed.<\/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 Guardian said a US study warned Omo Valley communities faced hunger under dam and sugar projects\" \/>\n<p>The story said residents of towns such as Kangaten were collecting water from a river blocked by the dam, and it quoted the think tank\u2019s warning that state development plans left indigenous livelihoods in the balance even as the projects promised power and industrial crops.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as indigenous rights and development archive, the Guardian piece dates international attention to the Omo Valley impact debate in June 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/jun\/13\/state-projects-leave-tens-of-thousands-of-lives-in-the-balance-in-ethiopia-study\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State projects leave tens of thousands of lives in the balance in Ethiopia \u2013 study&nbsp;&nbsp;The GuardianGiant dam and irrigated sugar plantations mean people in lower Omo valley face starvation and conflict, says US thinktank.<\/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-278793","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-1awF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278793","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=278793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755132,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278793\/revisions\/755132"}],"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=278793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}