[03:41.72]Aleem Maqbool reports from Cairo.
[03:44.35]When it’s finished the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will be by far the biggest hydroelectric power source in all of Africa.
[03:52.07]Construction started over two years ago but now the flow of the Nile is starting to be diverted down stream, Egypt has reacted with alarm.
[04:01.27]In an emotive address President Morsi talked it’d be gift of the River Nile to Egypt and the country’s historical rights to its waters.
[04:09.06]For its part, Ethiopia has insisted the work to build the dam will go on and that once the reservoir was filled the flow of Nile will return to normal.
[04:18.24]In Kenya, hundreds of civil society activists had held a march in the capital Nairobi to protest against fresh attempts by members of parliament to increase their own salaries.
[04:27.56]Dancing protesters carried a giant papier-mache pig through the street before smashing it to pieces of the gate to the Kenyan parliament chanting ‘help the needy, not the greedy’.
[04:37.28]The Argentine football association has banned away fans from attending football matches following the death of a supporter during a top division game near Buenos Aires.
[04:48.26]The ban will apply to all divisions of Argentine football until new measures are taken to address the widespread problem of violence in the game.
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