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Feb 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
In Nov 1922, the British government, which then administered Sudan & Egypt as its colonial protectorates, showed a keen interest in building a dam across the Blue Nile with a view to further bolster an already thriving cotton-farming enterprise. 1/4 bit.ly/3IYn5Nl
In 1927, Ras Teferi Mekonnen, then Regent, assembled a delegation to United States of America, led by Dr. Martin,aka Hakim Workneh, to obtain the government’s help in getting the J. G. White Corporation to build a dam at a cost of USD 20 million. 2/4
Jan 13, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
In 1991, TPLF annexed the Welkait territory to the Tigray Regional State, and called it West Tigray. Later, in 1995, it tried to legitimize the annexation by introducing Ethiopia’s current constitution, which divided the country into ethnic regions. 1/5 bit.ly/3ym0OEv
The opposition from the Amhara inhabitants of Welkait was swift and fierce. They challenged the unjust annexation of their ancestral lands, and they expressed it through an armed struggle called ‘Keffagn’. 2/5
