Flouting Ethiopia’s Sovereignty, Impeding Development, and the Italian Invasion in 1938 By Yosef Yacob (PHD) Lake Tsana Reservoir Project Negotiations Following the death of Emperor Menelik in 1911, British interest in the waters of Lake Tsana remained in abeyance. In May 1914, Kitchener reported that there was a possibility that the Abyssinian Government, owing to