Egypt is also afraid that during droughts, Ethiopia could fill the dam's reservoir – which holds 74billion cubic meters of ...

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

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

Sudan and Egypt are concerned about its effect on their water supply, but Abiy says the dam will benefit them all.

Egypt has previously threatened to go to war over the dam. Almost 10 years of negotiations between Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt over Ethiopia's construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam ...

The dam spans the Nile’s mightiest tributary — the Blue Nile, or Abay, as it is known to Ethiopians. More than 90 percent of the water that flows into Egypt originates in Ethiopia’s ...

Ethiopia began building the Renaissance Dam in 2011, as Egypt was engulfed in political turmoil. As the dam nears completion, Egypt's leaders are considering ways to cut back on water consumption.

The only reason Egypt has even existed from ancient times until today is because of the Nile River, which provides a thin, richly fertile stretch of green through the desert.

In Ethiopia, on the other hand, the $4-billion dam is being hailed as a national achievement as big as Aswan High Dam in Egypt was in the 1960s. Nour el-Din insists it’s unfair to compare the two.

The major row between Egypt and Ethiopia over a $5 bn dam project on the Blue Nile is a case in point. It exposes Egypt’s mismanagement of the crisis, an out-of-touch foreign policy, and an ...

Construction of the dam began in 2011, when Egypt was in the throes of a revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak and replaced him with the democratically elected Mohamed Morsi.