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The world’s longest river has become the center of a tense geopolitical struggle in Africa. At the heart of this conflict ...
This photo shows the dam at the end of the 2019 rainy season The long-running dispute between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over a massive hydroelectric dam being built on the River Nile shows no sign ...
But to Egypt, the dam threatens one of its most precious resources.Most of Egypt’s 102 million people live in the narrow Nile valley, along the river, and depend on it for everything from ...
Ethiopia has rejected claims by President Donald Trump that the finances to build its controversial Grand Ethiopian ...
But Egypt and Sudan are worried that the dam will curtail their share of the Nile’s waters as global warming and less rainfall also threaten to lower the river's level. The Nile provides nearly ...
Ethiopia's construction of Africa's largest hydroelectric dam on the world's longest river threatens to affect flows of water to Nile-dependent, water-starved Egypt, where there is growing outrage ...
Ethiopia and Egypt say the latest round of yearslong negotiations to find an agreement over a highly contentious hydroelectric dam Ethiopia has built on the Nile's main tributary ended with no deal.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Negotiations between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan over the controversial dam that Ethiopia is building on the Nile River will resume Tuesday, according to the chairman of the ...
Africa is building one of the most ambitious and controversial infrastructure projects in history, a $5 billion mega dam designed to block and harness the mighty Nile River. This massive ...
The Nile is only slightly longer than the Amazon River, for example, and in 2007 a team of Brazilian scientists announced they had remeasured the Amazon and found it to be 6,800 km (4,225 miles ...
But to Egypt, the dam threatens one of its most precious resources.Most of Egypt’s 102 million people live in the narrow Nile valley, along the river, and depend on it for everything from ...
Nine years of talks and several fragile agreements over how to share the water of the world's longest river were almost thrown out of the window last week — all because of a bout of heavy rain.