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Egypt said Friday that Ethiopia has consistently lacked the political will to reach a binding agreement on its now-complete ...
Egypt’s position has not changed at all; it will not allow any harm to its share of Nile waters,’ says Mostafa Madbouly - ...
A new £3.6billion dam in Ethiopia has been completed, according to officials but it's feared the hydropower project will impact Egypt's vital supply of water from the River Nile. For thousands of ...
Ethiopia’s prime minister says the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile has been completed. Egypt has long opposed the ...
Fraught diplomatic negotiations between Egypt and Ethiopia have for years centered on how quickly Ethiopia would fill the dam. Egypt has pushed Ethiopia to slowly fill the dam over the course of a ...
Egypt has previously threatened to go to war over the dam. Almost 10 years of negotiations between Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt over Ethiopia's construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam ...
The dam spans the Nile’s mightiest tributary — the Blue Nile, or Abay, as it is known to Ethiopians. More than 90 percent of the water that flows into Egypt originates in Ethiopia’s ...
Egypt had also demanded that the dam not be filled until a binding agreement over management of the river was reached. But this summer, seasonal rains began filling the dam, angering Egypt.
In Ethiopia, on the other hand, the $4-billion dam is being hailed as a national achievement as big as Aswan High Dam in Egypt was in the 1960s. Nour el-Din insists it’s unfair to compare the two.
Ethiopia says it has completed building a mega-dam on the Blue Nile that has long been a source of tension with Egypt and ...
NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia and Egypt said the latest round of talks over a huge, highly contentious hydroelectric dam Ethiopia has built on the Nile's main tributary again ended with no deal.
The only reason Egypt has even existed from ancient times until today is because of the Nile River, which provides a thin, richly fertile stretch of green through the desert.