There are tense negotiations involving multiple nations over the future of this dam, which one country believes threatens its ...

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), positioned on the Blue Nile, is set to become the largest hydroelectric plant in Africa and one of the top ten worldwide. GERD could make Ethiopia a ...

No. The reservoir behind the dam will fill naturally during the Blue Nile's rainy season, which has already begun and lasts until September. Given the stage that the construction is at ...

“I pray to God that this never happens.” 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 ...

The keyword behind this foreign policy change is the controversial dam Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile, known as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd). "Egypt has long relied on ...

One of the biggest conflicts in the Middle East and Eastern Africa is brewing over natural resources. In this case—the water ...

The project dams the Blue Nile, a river which later flows into neighbouring Sudan, where it merges with the White Nile and then flows on to Egypt. Like all rivers that flow across political ...