Ethiopia announced the completion of a new hydropower dam on the Nile River, a project Egypt has called an “existential threat” to its own water supply. ● Extreme heat in France and Switzerland has ...

ANNALS OF EXPLORATION about the Blue Nile, tracing its course from its outlet in the southern end of Lake Tana in the northern highlands of Ethiopia, along its 2750 mile journey to the ...

Origins: The origin of the White Nile is Lake Victoria in Tanzania, whereas the origin of the Blue Nile is Lake Tana, located in the highlands of Ethiopia. Origins of the Nile River ...

The Nile River is the world’s and Africa’s longest river, spanning 4,130 miles (6,650 km). The river flows from the White Nile near Lake Victoria and the Blue Nile from Lake Tana and joins in ...

Lake Tana, Ethiopia is the headwaters of the Blue Nile. The Blue Nile flows for about 1460 - 1600 km through Ethiopia and Sudan before joining the White Nile [1].

WHEN Major Cheesman entered upon his duties as H.B.M. Consul in north-west Abyssinia, he found that no large-scale maps of the Abyssinian portion of the Blue Nile were available. He was also ...

Ethiopia has maintained that it is well within its rights to build the hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile, which originates in Lake Tana. The tributary provides more than 85 per cent of the Nile's ...

An agreement signed by colonial powers in 1929 gave Egypt the sole right to use the waters of the Nile, whose twin origin is in Lake Victoria (White Nile) and Lake Tana (Blue Nile) ...

The Blue Nile, which flows from Lake Tana, actually provides more than 80 percent of the water and sediment that runs through the Nile when the two main parts meet in Khartoum. But the White Nile is ...