Somalia considering rehabilitating Fanoole Dam

[GalliumerianSlayer]

The Somali Government has submitted its Intended National Determined Contributions (INDC) to the UN this week. INDCs outline climate actions that individual countries intend to undertake under the new climate agreement to be decided at the COP21 conference in Paris, starting on 30 November. A US$28M project to rehabilitate the Fanoole hydropower dam has been suggested in the country's plans.
The Fanoole hydroelectric dam was constructed with the assistance of China from 1977 to 1982 at a cost of about US$50M. The dam and its canal system provided irrigation for government owned rice and sesame farms and provided electricity to the towns of Jilib and Marerey. The plan was to extend the electricity to Jamame and other towns downstream but the onset of the civil war interrupted the initiative. In addition the path of the river flow has changed since the 1998 El Nino rains.
Rehabilitation of Fanoole dam is considered to be a priority for the reconstruction and development of the Middle and Lower Jubba regions. Currently all electricity in this region is from diesel-fuelled generators and so the production of 4.6MW of hydropower from the rehabilitated scheme would contribute towards the country's climate change goals.

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[SahanGalbeed]

This is great news .You know just like everywhere else in Africa I believe we're seeing a population growth . Somalis are becoming city dwellers , which by itself creates a population boom . Like Bernard Lugan {a French historian with unconventional views } likes to say , the nomads in Africa for a long time had to regulate their population as they lived off their livestock and not agriculture . Now what's happening with all these population settling in cities is gonna be a population growth. WE HAVE TO DEVELOP AND PROMOTE AGRICULTURE WITH THE SOMALIS . In the long terms we could even feed Djibouti which imports the majority of its food .