A colossal hydroelectric dam being built on the Nile 2,000 miles upriver, in the lowlands of Ethiopia, threatens to further constrict Egypt’s water supply — and is scheduled to start filling ...

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 fi ...

Nile water is also used to fill Lake Nasser, the reservoir for Egypt's own hydro-electric power plant, the Aswan High Dam. Sudan, with a population of 48 million people, is also heavily reliant on ...

Dam construction on international rivers often causes disputes over the downstream impact. But the Nile is different: few nations rely so completely on a single river as much as Egypt does.

Egypt relies on the Nile River for 86 percent of its water, and has said the construction of the dam is a security concern. Ethiopia's parliament ratified a controversial treaty last week ensuring ...

“Ethiopia’s time has come.” Ethiopia’s decision to construct a dam along the Nile has sparked a regional conflict amongst the nations along the Nile, most significantly, Egypt. The Egyptians have long ...

Ethiopia has announced that it has filled its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Nile, which has been the source of a long-running water dispute with downstream countries Egypt and Sudan.

Ethiopia said Saturday it had begun a second round of talks with Egypt and Sudan over a controversial mega-dam built by Addis Ababa on the Nile, long a source of tensions among the three nations.

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a massive hydropower plant on the River Nile that neighbors Sudan and Egypt, as the dam started to produce electricity, Feb. 19, 2022, in Benishangul-Gumuz ...

Egypt fears that any decrease in the Nile’s flow, even if minimal, could worsen its already critical water scarcity issues. The country has consistently expressed concerns over the dam’s ...

KHARTOUM, Sudan, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Egypt and Ethiopia remain at loggerheads over Addis Ababa's plan to build a $4.2 billion, 6,000-megawatt dam on a major tributary of the Nile River that Cairo says ...

Ethiopia is putting the finishing touches on its mega hydroelectric dam on one of the main tributaries of the Nile, just off ...