Including bill gates bracco barber and illness. And why the global population is expected to shrink by hundreds of millions in the coming decades. Welcome to the Program Egypt is seeking urgent clarification from ethiopia about whether it started to fill the reservoir of africas largest dam of the blue nile Ethiopian State Television reported on wednesday that the filling of the ground renee sonce time had begun a 5000000000. 00 project is the centerpiece of ethiopias bid to become africas biggest power exporter egypt and sudan fear reduced Water Supplies downstream and didnt want the river downed until they reached agreement with ethiopia last month egypt told the un it faces an existential threat from the dam Charles Trafford reports now on the complex regional politics surrounding the project. Its taken 10 years to build and cost close to 5000000000. 00 u t o p s flagship Infrastructure Project is a great source of. National pride. But the grand ethiopian renaissance dam on the blue