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Reaffirms regional peace, energy goalsPrime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) has officially invited Nile River basin countries including Egypt and Sudan to attend the inauguration of the Abbay Dam scheduled ...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia’s prime minister said Thursday that his country’s controversial power dam on the Nile has been completed.
To this end, the paper first discusses why the Nile waters are a major source of conflict in the Nile Basin, and, then it highlights the past and present bilateral and multilateral attempts at ...
Egypt says that Ethiopia has consistently lacked the political will to reach a binding agreement on its now-complete dam. The ...
A truck and a microbus collided on a road in Egypt on Friday, killing 19 people, officials said. The microbus was carrying ...
It argues that the Nile basin countries must have a new agreement that paves the way for fresh and vibrant cooperation in the economic, environmental, security and legal/institutional spheres. These ...
Ethiopia is forever trying to drive a wedge between the Nile Basin nations. Its first major attempt towards this end was its call to conclude the Entebbe Agreement on the redistribution of Nile ...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s prime minister said Thursday that a controversial power dam on the Nile is now complete, a major milestone for his country amid a dispute with Egypt ...
The dam, on the Blue Nile near the Sudan border, began producing power in 2022. The project is expected to ultimately produce over 6,000 megawatts of electricity, which is double Ethiopia’s ...
That agreement, first signed in 1929, took no account of the other nations along the river basin that have demanded a more equitable accord. ___ Muhumuza contributed from Kampala, Uganda.