A local media report caused a stir after it reported that in 14 years, at least 15,000 people may have diedduring the construction of the nearly $5 billion (€4.2 billion) Grand Ethiopian Renaissance ...

Johannesburg — Africa's largest hydroelectric dam, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), on the Blue Nile is scheduled to open Tuesday to major fanfare in Ethiopia. The $5 billion dam project ...

CAIRO — Ethiopia claimed Monday that its recently inaugurated dam has helped lessen floods that have hit Sudan, as speculation rose over whether it has actually caused the deluges. Sudan on Saturday ...

Africa’s biggest hydroelectric project is due to be inaugurated in September – and it is already a point of pride for the prime minister, who is touting more big schemes. Nearly half of Ethiopians ...

The rainy season is starting in East Africa, triggering fears that the reservoir of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam could be overfilled and that last year’s floods in Egypt and Sudan may be ...

Ethiopia inaugurated the continent's largest hydroelectric project on Tuesday in what Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed called a "great achievement for all black people", but it drew a protest to the United ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — With great fanfare Ethiopia inaugurated its controversial mega-dam on the Blue Nile on Tuesday – the biggest hydroelectric dam in Africa but one that's divided the region ...

Ethiopia inaugurated the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on September 9, which was, to all intents and purposes, an epochal event. Built across the Nile, it is the largest hydroelectric dam in ...