
a Newsnight investigation into how billions of dollars of development aid money is being used as a tool of political repression in Ethiopia. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a non profit media group led by the award wining journalist Iain Overton , says it has leaked reports that expose extreme abuses during the 2005. The United Nations has added its voice to the barrage of criticism on Ethiopia's massive Gibe III hydropower project, calling for work to be suspended until the negative impacts of the dam have been determined. The World Heritage Committee, which establishes sites to be listed as being of special cultural or physical significance, said the dam's construction endangered the existence of Lake Turkana. The lake, the largest desert lake in the world and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997, sits astride the Kenya-Ethiopian border. In a letter to the Ethiopian and Chinese governments after its annual meeting, the committee underlined the importance of Lake Turkana as an outstanding research area for animal and plant communities. "The area's rich fossil finds have allowed reconstructing the history of animal species and mankind over the past 2 million years," the committee report copied to the Ethiopian government read in part. Both Ethiopia and China as members of the World Heritage Committee were asked to fulfill their obligations for the protection of such a site. China is helping fund the building of the dam. The UN body also asked the <b>...</b>
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