Thousands of Sudanese villagers have refused to leave homes due to be flooded this year by a $2 billion dam designed to double Sudan's electricity supply...Tens of thousands of villagers have already been displaced by the Chinese-built Merowe Dam [partly constructed by Harbin]...But villagers from the Manaseer area...said new houses built for them by the government were too far from the river and would not have the water needed to sustain their agriculture...In the past, there were clashes between villagers and the authorities over Merowe but most of the people have now moved and have accepted the government compensation.