A controversial Ethiopian dam on the Blue Nile river began generating electricity for the first time on Sunday, according to state TV. The $4.2bn (£3.8bn) dam, located in the western Benishangul ...

This past week, I returned from a remarkable trip along the Omo River in the remote southwestern region of Ethiopia. Traveling through this amazing country, you quickly realize that many North ...

This photo shows the dam at the end of the 2019 rainy season The long-running dispute between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over a massive hydroelectric dam being built on the River Nile shows no sign ...

It also says Ethiopia could decide to fill the reservoir in times of drought rather than letting it flow down-river to Egypt. Since the dam building started in 2011, countries including the USA ...

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

Fatigued residents braved the scorching sun to demonstrate and condemned the Kenya and Ethiopia governments over a power deal they said put their survival in jeopardy. River Omo is the main ...

Image credit: The Conversation The GERD project intends to generate a great deal of electricity, of course, and thus dam a large amount of the river’s annual flow. However, in Ethiopia ...

Addis Ababa, January 18/2024(ENA) The annual meeting of Ethiopia’s ambassadors in its 5th day today deliberated on the successive rounds of the trilateral negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian ...