Nile River water is essential to agriculture and public sanitation ... and minimized the country’s obligations to assist Egypt and Sudan during drought periods. Yet, Ethiopia dragged its feet in ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told the United Nations on Friday that his country has "no intention" of harming Sudan and Egypt with a giant hydropower dam on the Blue Nile that has caused a ...

One of the biggest conflicts in the Middle East and Eastern Africa is brewing over natural resources. In this case—the water from the Nile River and how upstream damming affects the countries Ethiopia ...

What are the simmering tensions around the official launch of the dam? The dispute over the allocation and use of the Nile waters has been going on for many years. This has been exacerbated by climate ...

The Toshka spillway is a security measure to prevent a dangerous rise in water levels in Lake Nasser, not an economic option. Some of the released water might be used in future agricultural projects, ...

Johannesburg — Africa's largest hydroelectric dam, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), on the Blue Nile is scheduled to open Tuesday to major fanfare in Ethiopia. The $5 billion dam project ...

The heat is stifling but the construction workers and red-hatted engineers don’t let up. Mechanized excavators batter into the mighty, arid peaks on either side of the site of Ethiopia’s Grand ...

The chain of lights shows the river's corridor from Minya to New Bani Sewf City to the heart of Cairo. At 1:32 am local time, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) captured a ...