Updated Oct. 15 at 1:29 p.m. A colossal dam is near completion on Ethiopia’s stretch of the Nile, a project so large that it promises to set the country on a path to industrialization that could ...

The Nile River is the backbone of life for millions of people across Northeast Africa, but its waters have long been a source ...

Statistics indicate that the world's 263 Trans Boundary Lake and River Basins cover nearly half of the Earth's land surface. A total of 145 nations include territory within international basins, and ...

The project dams the Blue Nile, a river which later ... of course, and thus dam a large amount of the river’s annual flow. However, in Ethiopia, it bears noting that there is a great deal ...

AP Photo / Mulugeta Ayene Elias Meseret, AP’s reporter in Addis Ababa, scored an exclusive interview with the Ethiopia’s foreign minister on the controversial dam the country is building on the Blue ...

The Ethiopian authorities released this picture of the dam last week after the completion of the fifth phase of filling Ethiopia has said Egypt “must abandon its aggressive approach” towards a ...

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The belief in Egypt is that Ethiopia is being used by Israel and other powers to undermine Egypt and bring it down to its ...

River Nile River is a source of livelihood for ... the dispute relating to the filling and operationalisation of the dam. Ethiopia has already completed the third phase of filing the reservoir ...

The mega hydroelectric power project has since then been a major issue among the three Nile-bound countries of Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan. Ethiopia frequently reiterates that the dam will power ...

The second biggest advantage in Ethiopia’s favor is the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a massive project to construct a dam on the Nile River to revolutionize Ethiopia’s energy generation.