Ethiopia announced the completion of a new hydropower dam on the Nile River, a project Egypt has called an “existential threat” to its own water supply. ● Extreme heat in France and Switzerland has ...

Ethiopia’s prime minister said Thursday that a controversial power dam on the Nile is now complete, a major milestone for his ...

Ethiopia says it has completed building a mega-dam on the Blue Nile that has long been a source of tension with Egypt and ...

Abiy Ahmed says Ethiopia remains ready and willing to engage constructively with the downstream countries - Egypt and Sudan.

Egypt says that Ethiopia has consistently lacked the political will to reach a binding agreement on its now-complete dam.

ADDIS ABABA, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile River is "now complete" and will officially be inaugurated in ...

No. The reservoir behind the dam will fill naturally during the Blue Nile's rainy season, which has already begun and lasts until September. Given the stage that the construction is at ...

The Nile river basin is an ecosystem under severe stress. The basin is shared by about 400 million people in eleven countries with economies that depend heavily on agriculture, which employs the ...

The Nile ends its winding 4,000-mile journey through Africa in Ras el-Bar, a seaside town on Egypt’s north coast, where the river slips quietly into the Mediterranean.

The Nile River, considered the longest river in the world, is approximately 4,258 miles (6,853 kilometers) long, but its exact length is a matter of debate.