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.

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 ...

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

While Ethiopia views the dam as a pivotal development project for energy generation, Egypt perceives it as a significant ...

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 ...

Egypt and Sudan ‘would not accept Addis Ababa’s unilateral decision to fill and operate the GERD dam’ Egyptian Minister of Irrigation Mohamed Abdel-Aty reaffirmed the government's efforts ...

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Egypt has been crying foul saying the dam would reduce its "traditional" share of the Nile waters. Ethiopia said it needs the dam for its development and that the dam would not have significant ...

The rock hauling has been delayed by frequent breakdowns of Russian dump trucks, which cost Egypt $41,000 each ... don’t you think we can build a dam on the Nile?” Contact us at letters@ ...