Egypt’s historical rights to the Nile River make this unresolved diplomatic standoff over water rights a critical obstacle.

A view of the Blue Nile River canyon, the natural boundary between Ethiopia's Oromia and Amhara regions. (Yonas Tadesse for The Washington Post) Max Bearak is The Washington Post's Nairobi bureau ...

Tensions in the region have increased, stemming in part from Ethiopia’s construction of a $4 billion dam on the Blue Nile, a ...

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The belief in Egypt is that Ethiopia is being used by Israel and other powers to undermine the Arab world's most populous ...

the reset of the riparian countries have never benefited from this river. Ethiopia who contributes more than 86% of the Nile waters with 77 billion cubic meters of water from the Blue Nile not only ...

Why is Egypt worried about Ethiopia's dam on the Nile? Why Ethiopia can't stop Gerd ... in perpetuating its self-claimed monopoly" over the river. In recent weeks, tensions across the Horn of ...

Prof Julien Harou, Chair of Water Engineering at The University of Manchester and corresponding author of the study At the heart of the dispute lies the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) - a ...

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[Reuters, Stringer] Ethiopia began producing electricity on Sunday from its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a multi-billion-dollar hydropower plant on the River Nile that neighbours Sudan ...