Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced on Thursday that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will be officially inaugurated this September, hailing the massive hydropower project as a ...

Prime Minister Abiy calls Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam ‘a shared opportunity’ for Egypt and Sudan - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Abiy Ahmed says Ethiopia remains ready and willing to engage constructively with the downstream countries - Egypt and Sudan.

Ethiopia announced on Thursday it has completed construction of its massive Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile and ...

Opinion - In a recent and provocative statement, U.S. President Donald Trump falsely claimed that "America funded the Grand ...

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 ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 9, 1960, construction of the Aswan High Dam began in Egypt. It would be the first time flooding on the Nile ...

Last week in Cairo, Premier Nasser and World Bank President Black sat down to take another look at the Aswan dam project. Nasser settled for roughly half the $600 million commitment he had once ...

The case in point was the Aswan Dam, which would harness the Nile, ... “You can’t build an eighth of a dam or half a dam and add to it later.” ¶ Total cost will be $1.3 billion.

Desroches-Noblecourt’s fight to save the temples began in the late 1950s, following the announcement by Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser of the Aswan Dam project.