Begun in 2011, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile -- which joins the White Nile in Sudan to form the Nile -- already holds nearly a third of its 74-billion-cubic-metre capacity.

Ethiopia announced on Sunday it had completed the fourth and final phase of filling a reservoir for its huge and controversial hydroelectric power plant on the Blue Nile, a project that Egypt and ...

Explore the incredible story of Africa’s $5 billion megadam project and its monumental impact on the Nile River. This engineering marvel, known as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), has ...

And in fact, I would think that the Nile water be shared equally or perhaps based on census. The Nile water can also be used to solve conflicts in East Africa. A good example is the Somalia- Ethiopia ...

Here are the five longest rivers in Africa. Nile River. ... (4,180 kilometres), starts near the Atlantic Ocean, travels inland to the Sahara Desert, and then bends south to the Gulf of Guinea.

Here are the five longest rivers in Africa. Nile River. ... (4,180 kilometers), starts near the Atlantic Ocean, travels inland to the Sahara Desert, and then bends south to the Gulf of Guinea.

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...

One of the biggest conflicts in the Middle East and Eastern Africa is brewing over natural resources. In this case—the water from the Nile River and how upstream damming affects the countries ...

Juba, South Sudan — The Nile River is the second-longest river in the world. It provides crucial resources to 11 countries, including South Sudan, the world's youngest nation.

However, the Nile is no longer the unperturbable river of myth. In half a century, its flow has dropped from 3,000 cubic metres (10,600 cubic feet) per second to 2,830 cubic metres. Even so, it could ...