Egypt, which has also seen flooding in the Nile Delta, is pointing the finger at Ethiopia. Cairo says its newly opened dam on the Blue Nile, near the border with Sudan, is responsible for rising water ...

Egypt and Sudan reiterated their firm rejection on Wednesday of any unilateral measures regarding the Blue Nile, where Ethiopia built a dam project disputed by the two downstream nations.

Sudan has issued what it describes as a “red alert” warning of potential floods in five provinces along the Nile River, citing rising water levels in its two main tributaries, the Blue and ...

After outfoxing Egypt on the diplomatic stage for more than a decade, Ethiopia is set to officially inaugurate one of the world's biggest dams on a tributary of the River Nile, burying a colonial-era ...

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 ...

Among them is the long-standing dispute over the Nile River waters that flared up when Ethiopia proposed to build a massive dam over the Blue Nile, threatening the water supply of Egypt and Sudan.

Funding calls had gone out since the project was launched in 2011, with the government also issuing bonds to fund construction of the mile-long, 475-foot-high structure. The celebrations in Ethiopia, ...

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 ...

Water scarcity in Africa is a crisis, and the Gerd saga shows why mutually beneficial cooperation agreements are vital.

Look at Egypt on Google Earth and you will see a green line snaking through a sand-colored landscape, fanning out into a triangle in the north. This emerald ribbon is the vegetation that grows on ...

Sudan is the largest country on the African continent. One major topographical feature of Sudan is the Nile river (Nīl, Nahr an-). The White Nile (Abyad, Al-Bahr al-)goes into the country through the ...