local official in Nekemte, "that nobody, even the local Shankallas, as far as he knew, had ever followed the course of the river to its junction with the Abbai." Admittedly, at certain times of the year [the Dejazmach continued], a few Shankallas worked in some cotton fields, which he had just planted 15 miles north of the Dadessa bridge; but even these few miles were, to use his own words, "a country fit only for monkeys." He emphasized the difficulties which we would encounter: no paths, thick bamboo forests, fever, and, with an expressive upward wave of his hand, the steepness of the mountains bordering the river. He suggested that, if we were anxious to see the confluence of the Abbai and Dadessa, we would be well advised to follow the track from Nekemti to Nejo, thence along a known track to the junction. Anger Irrigation Dam On 14 June 2021, the construction of the Anger Irrigation Dam at Didessa River was launched by the President of Oromia regional state, Shimelis Abdisa and Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy, Sileshi Bekele, to be completed in three years. See also Didessa Wildlife Sanctuary Notes Rivers of Ethiopia Tributaries of the Blue Nile Ethiopian Highlands Geography of Oromia Region