Merowe Dam displaced people's meeting attacked - three killed

(Sudan Tribune, Khartoum, 22 April 2006) Three people were killed and more than fifty wounded in an attack carried out on a community meeting of people to be displaced by the Merowe Dam currently under construction in the Sudan. The dam is financed by the China Exim Bank and different Arab Funds, and executed by Chinese and European companies, including Lahmeyer International, Alstom, and ABB. Whereas the affected people demand to be resettled around the dam reservoir, the dam authority insists on resettling the people in Bayouda desert, a location rejected by the people. Affected people allege that the dam authority has sold their land to Arab investors.