ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s parliament on Thursday ratified an accord that replaces colonial-era deals that awarded Egypt and Sudan the majority of the world’s longest river. The vote ...
What is the context of the current tussle? Ethiopia, whose highlands provide more than 85% of the water that flows into the Nile, has long argued that it has the right under international law to ...
In a joint statement, Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and Water Minister Hani Sewilam rejected "unilateral actions on the Nile," a reference to Ethiopia's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), ...
This massive project, completed in 2023, has become a major source of tension between several African nations.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia and Egypt said the latest round of talks over a huge, highly contentious hydroelectric dam Ethiopia has built on the Nile's main tributary again ended with no deal. The ...
Ethiopia’s prime minister said Thursday that a controversial power dam on the Nile is now complete, a major milestone for his country amid a dispute with Egypt over equitable sharing of the river's ...
Ethiopia says it has completed building a mega-dam on the Blue Nile that has long been a source of tension with Egypt and Sudan. Launched in 2011 with a $4bn (£2.9bn) budget, the dam is Africa's ...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia’s prime minister said Thursday that a controversial power dam on the Nile is now complete, a major milestone for his country amid a dispute with Egypt over equitable ...
In September 2025, Ethiopia inaugurated Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile. Since its inception, the construction of the GERD has been a ...
NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia has started generating electricity from the controversial mega-dam that is being built on the Blue Nile. The milestone was reached Sunday morning when one of the 13 turbines ...
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 ...