After 14 years of financial and diplomatic struggles, Ethiopia is celebrating the anniversary of the construction of the ...

Expected to generate over five gigawatts of electricity, the dam promises to transform Ethiopia's energy landscape. However, its construction has been mired in controversy, raising geopolitical ...

Ethiopia’s dam construction challenged Egeypt’s dominance by defying the 1929 and 1959 agreements that gave Egypt significant control over the river’s waters, making the dam a test of future ...

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has stoked intense nationalistic ... Wheeler said, and their construction has barely started. Perched high above the river whose harnessing promises such ...

The construction of the dam progressed to ... to block any financial and technical support that enabled Ethiopia to build a dam over its share of the river. Fortunately, the people and government ...

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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 Ethiopian prime minister’s statement that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will be inaugurated within six months was ...

Since Ethiopia announced it would go ahead with construction of the dam in 2011, Cairo has voiced disapproval. At various stages, Egypt has demanded that Ethiopia cease construction, threatened action ...

The Office of National Coordination for the Construction of GERD announced ... and Sudan. Ethiopia frequently reiterates that the dam will power its development aspirations and boost its ambition ...

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Egypt’s strategy to block the construction of the GERD is not new. The plan to prevent Ethiopia from building the dam began soon after Ethiopia announced its construction on the Blue Nile in 2011.