Long-standing hostilities between Egypt and Ethiopia over the use of the Nile River have added to broader tensions in the ...

Eritrea has, in recent months, called for young people to sign up for the army, while Ethiopia has reportedly deployed troops ...

A view of the Blue Nile River canyon, the natural boundary between Ethiopia's Oromia and Amhara regions. (Yonas Tadesse for The Washington Post) Max Bearak is The Washington Post's Nairobi bureau ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Thursday that the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) would be completed ...

Egypt’s historical rights to the Nile River make this unresolved diplomatic standoff over water rights a critical obstacle. Ethiopia’s dam construction challenged Egeypt’s dominance by ...

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Nile River shouldn't become source of tension Speaking ... the First Counsellor of the Rwandan Embassy in Ethiopia noted that the shared vision of peace and sustainable development in the Nile ...

As Ethiopia vows to fill the GERD for a second time this July, Egypt is no longer mincing its words when it comes to actions it is willing to take to mitigate any loss of access to the Nile. In this ...

The Horn of Africa country started to build the GERD on the Nile River in April 2011 ... issue among the three Nile-bound countries of Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan. Ethiopia frequently reiterates ...

countries like Egypt and Sudan are not happy about the dam’s near completion with the water usage taken from the Nile River being the main concern. Egypt’s foreign ministry said: "Ethiopia's ...

In Jinja, Uganda there is a very healthy respect for the power of the water. One of the most engaging aspects of filming along the Nile’s great length was discovering quite how many different ...