An Ethiopian dam the size of London, threatens to cause political turmoil in east Africa over fears it could deprive ...

Created by the construction of the Aswan High Dam between 1960 and 1970, it is one of the largest man-made lakes in the world ...

The original Aswan Dam was built and completed by the British in 1902 about four miles downstream from where the Aswan High Dam is located today.

Hundred and fifty five years after it was opened for ships, the Suez Canal remains one of the busiest waterways in the world ...

R eports of mass looting at Sudan's National Museum amid the ongoing civil war have shocked the cultural heritage community.

During the filling process, Egypt can compensate for a loss of water by releasing more from the High Aswan Dam, but the concern comes once the Gerd is fully operational. Reuters Sudan and Egypt ...

When the building of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s flooded the area, UNESCO tried but failed to recover artifacts that were ...

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The poster-child for this harm has long been the High Aswan dam in Egypt, which holds back the river Nile, creating a 500km-long reservoir. Getty Images Lake Nasser, the reservoir created by the ...

Egypt has been certified as malaria free, with the World Health Organization (WHO) calling the achievement “truly historic” and the culmination of nearly a century of work to stamp out the disease.

The Nubian people, historically living along the Nile River in southern Egypt, saw their way of life irrevocably altered when ...

Aswan Dam, across the river Nile in Egypt, is the world's largest embankment dam. A dam is a barrier that blocks water to create a human-made lake called a reservoir. Dams can be used to produce ...