After the US and the USSR collaborated at the United Nations to force the occupiers to withdraw, the Soviet Union decided to fund the Aswan Dam. A call for international action to help protect ...

Fifty years after Nile River flooding was brought under control by the Aswan High ... looked to the United States for funding and scientific expertise in building the dam but, when international ...

Still, the threat served him well. Last week in Cairo, Premier Nasser and World Bank President Black sat down to take another look at the Aswan dam project. Nasser settled for roughly half the $ ...

For Ayeb, the dam also "proved to be a political bomb". In building Aswan, Egypt and Sudan agreed a Nile water sharing deal, but did not include any other upstream nations, including Ethiopia.

But in 1956, the United States and Britain withdrew a pledge to fund the construction of the Aswan High Dam after Egypt moved closer to the Soviet bloc. Egypt's High Dam in Aswan, lies some 700 ...

The original Aswan Dam was built and completed by the British in 1902 about four miles downstream from where the Aswan High Dam is located today.

The Aswan Dam made Lake Nasser ... painter who worked at New York University as the first art professor in the United States? One body of water in the Antarctic, Lake Bonney, has freshwater ...

For millennia, the North African country was at the mercy of the seasonal rise and fall of the river, dependent on the rainfall in nations far upstream. But the 111-metre-high and 3.6-kilometre-wide ...