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World’s largest dam opened

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At the time the world’s largest dam, the Sennar Dam, also called Makwar Dam, Sudan. — Otago Witness, 23.3.1926 January 18: The Khartoum streets were beflagged and large crowds assembled to meet Lord and Lady Lloyd when the British High Commissioner in Egypt formally opened the Makwar Dam, the gigantic engineering feat designed to fertilise over 300,000 acres of desert between the Blue Nile and the White Nile.

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World’s largest dam opened

At the time the world’s largest dam, the Sennar Dam, also called Makwar Dam, Sudan. — Otago Witness, 23.3.1926 January 18: The Khartoum streets were beflagged and large crowds assembled to meet Lord and Lady Lloyd when the British High Commissioner in Egypt formally opened the Makwar Dam, the gigantic engineering feat designed to fertilise over 300,000 acres of desert between the Blue Nile and the White Nile.

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Otago Daily Times broke the news in Otago, New Zealand on Monday, January 19, 2026.
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