Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Updated Oct. 15 at 1:29 p.m. A colossal dam is near completion on ...

The Nile is the longest river in all of Africa - and the second in the world after the Amazon a source of life and wealth that flows through no less than ten countries and pours its waters into ...

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The Horn of Africa country started to build the GERD on the Nile River in April 2011. The mega hydroelectric power project has since then been a major issue among the three Nile-bound countries of ...

A new £4 billion mega-dam is now the largest in Africa and is set to transform the country. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, formerly known as the Millennium Dam and sometimes referred to ...

Researchers propose a framework for equitable sharing of the Nile's water and hydropower resources during extended drought periods. A new study proposes a science-based policy for operating the Nile ...

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd) was built on the Blue Nile and is Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam. Once completed, the dam aims to power millions of homes, increase economic growth ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Addis Ababa — The pressing need to accelerate the establishment of a Nile Basin Commission topped the issues at this year's Nile Day celebrations on Feb. 22 in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.

KUMAMOTO--Kumamoto Governor Ikuo Kabashima is poised to approve a new plan to construct a flood-control dam for the Kawabegawa river, which is a tributary of Kumagawa river, sources said on Nov.

MANIAL SULTAN, Egypt — Yassin Saeed remembers when the Nile’s annual flood drenched his village in the years before the construction of the Aswan High Dam. Now, former flood lands are green ...