The paper assesses social impacts of a mega-dam project (Merowe Dam in Sudan) as perceived by host and affected … and interviews were conducted with 300 residents, government officials, the Dam Implementation Unit (DIU), NGOs and other … key informants. Five inter-related areas of impact were scrutinized: (a) displacement of communities; (b) resettlement of …

Cahora Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River, built in the early 1970s during the final years of Portuguese rule, was the last … praised the dam for its technical complexity and the skills required to construct what was then the world's fifth-largest mega-dam …. Portuguese colonial officials cited benefits they expected from the dam?-?from expansion of irrigated farming and European …