The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), positioned on the Blue Nile, is set to become the largest hydroelectric plant in ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Updated Oct. 15 at 1:29 p.m. A colossal dam is near completion on ...

Ethiopia's leader said Thursday that a contentious multi-billion-dollar mega-dam on the Blue Nile will be inaugurated "in the next six months".

The project dams the Blue Nile, a river which later flows into ... Of course, there’s nothing physically stopping the Ethiopian dam from simply holding as much water as is desired and using ...

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd) was built on the Blue Nile and is Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam. Once completed, the dam aims to power millions of homes, increase economic growth ...

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, formerly known as the Millennium Dam and sometimes referred to as the Hidase Dam, is a gravity dam on the Blue Nile River. The dam is in Guba, in the ...

The plan to prevent Ethiopia from building the dam began soon after Ethiopia announced its construction on the Blue Nile in 2011. However, the conflict between the two nations intensified after Dr ...

Both Egypt's Aswan High Dam and Sudan's Merowe Dam are hydroelectric ... as per agreements signed in the past century in the absence of Ethiopia, whose Blue Nile tributary supplies most of the ...

MANIAL SULTAN, Egypt — Yassin Saeed remembers when the Nile’s annual flood drenched his village in the years before the construction of the Aswan High Dam. Now, former flood lands are green ...

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