Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced in July 2025 that the multi-billion-dollar Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam ...

The world’s longest river has become the center of a tense geopolitical struggle in Africa. At the heart of this conflict ...

Nowadays, technology has reached such heights when truly incredible construction projects have become available to a man. Many of them are striking in their scope, creative approach to implementation ...

The dispute over Ethiopia’s enormous dam should be a warning of what the future holds on a hotter, drier planet. Machines stand on the construction site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in ...

Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan resumed their years-long negotiations Sunday Aug. 27, 2023 over the controversial dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile River’s main tributary, officials said.

But the new dam also puts management of the flow of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia's hands -- and that has sparked a power shift in the region. For the Egyptians, the Nile is, literally, a lifeline.

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 ...

Ethiopia has started diverting a stretch of the Blue Nile to make way for a $4.7bn (£3.1bn) hydroelectric dam that has caused a dispute with countries downstream, state media say.

The Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam had been mooted since the 1960s but it was only in 2010 that plans were finalized. Throughout the process, Cairo had made plain its concerns that water would be ...

According to Ethiopia’s media, it is expected to be the largest hydroelectric power generator in Africa and the world’s seventh-largest dam. The structure stands at 145 metres, with a total ...