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 ...

In June, Ethiopia began filing the mega dam it has been built on the Blue Nile - which could have repercussions for countries downstream. After this year's rainy season, the Grand Ethiopian ...

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), positioned on the Blue Nile, is set to become the largest hydroelectric plant in ...

a large dam on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia constructed to improve Ethiopia's electricity access and to export electricity to neighbouring countries. The project sparked tensions between Ethiopia, ...

A new dam on the Nile could trigger a war over water - unless Ethiopia can agree a deal with Egypt and Sudan. Join the BBC's Africa correspondent Alastair Leithead and his team, travelling from ...

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

June 14, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – The governments of South Sudan and Uganda have voiced support to a Ethiopia’s controversial dam building project on the Blue Nile river. Ugandan President ...

The thousands of people who lost their mudbrick homes in Elgezira Aba in the end of last year, due to flooding of the White Nile, are not the only victims of the high-water level, mainly caused by the ...

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