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Ethiopia has announced on July 3, the completion of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a $4 billion hydropower ...

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Ethiopia’s Prime Minister said on Thursday the contested Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile is complete, a key step ...

Ethiopia’s prime minister says the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile has been completed. Egypt has long opposed the dam, calling it an existential threat to its water supply.

Tensions in the region have increased, stemming in part from Ethiopia’s construction of a four billion dollar (£3.1 billion) dam on the Blue Nile, a key tributary of the Nile River.

Measuring 6,695 kilometers (4160 miles), the Nile is the longest river in the world, with one tributary, the White Nile, starting in South Sudan and the other, the Blue Nile, in Ethiopia.

A regional partnership for Nile River basin countries says an agreement on the equitable use of water resources has come into force despite the notable opposition of Egypt.

The Nile which comprises both the White and Blue Nile is a transboundary river which criss-crosses several countries right from its source in Uganda through South Sudan, Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt.

Link Copied! The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a massive hydropower plant on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. The dam's construction has caused tensions between Ethiopia and Egypt and Sudan.

In 1979, then Egyptian president Anwar Sadat famously declared that the only thing that would lead Egypt to war again was water, specifically the Nile River. Egypt’s dominance over the Nile—which ...