The three dams, the Ethiopian government says, will be constructed within four to seven years and will be able to start ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Activists from the Ethiopian community march in protest of Donald Trump's comments on Ethiopia and the Renaissance Dam on Oct. 29, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Funding calls had gone out since the project was launched in 2011, with the government also issuing bonds to fund construction of ...

Waterfall on the Blue Nile river in West Gojjam, Amhara Region, Ethiopia. This region is threatened by natural hazards such as flooding due to climate change. Global warming as well as recent droughts ...

The former head of Ethiopia's public electric company and 49 others were charged with corruption linked to a dam on the Blue Nile river, the state-owned ENA press agency said Friday. Egyptians depend ...

The Nile is one of the world's most famous rivers. It's also Africa's most important freshwater system. About 300 million people live in the 11 countries it flows through. Many rely on its waters for ...

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - At an open-air, riverbank factory where the Blue Nile and White Nile meet in Sudan, Mohamed Ahmed al Ameen and his colleagues mould thousands of bricks every day from mud ...

The Nile is the longest river in the world, coursing about 6,650 kilometers (4,132 miles) across northeastern Africa to meet the Mediterranean Sea at the broad, green delta in Egypt. The Nile’s ...

Johannesburg — Africa's largest hydroelectric dam, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), on the Blue Nile is scheduled to open Tuesday to major fanfare in Ethiopia. The $5 billion dam project ...