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 ...

A defiant material that may lead to the eruption of a new water war across Africa, Africa has witnessed the opening of the largest hydro dam in the continent with a grand event that may precipitate ...

Ethiopian evangelicals hailed Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s inauguration of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as both a national milestone and an answer to years of prayer, framing the $5 ...

“It is with great pleasure that I announce the successful completion of the fourth and final filling of the Renaissance Dam. Ethiopians have helped us by working together. Congratulations to all who ...

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 ...

Ethiopia is getting ready for the inauguration on Tuesday of its controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The mega plant built by Addis Ababa on the waters of the Blue Nile has raised ...

The construction site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Guba, Ethiopia, Nov. 24, 2017 (Photo by Gioia Forster for dpa via AP Images). Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam, the Grand Ethiopian ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Fanuse Adete is among those Ethiopians looking forward to finally getting connected to the national electricity grid when the Grand Renaissance Dam, which will be inaugurated ...

The construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile tributary has been poisoning the atmosphere between Cairo, Addis Ababa and Khartoum for more than 10 years. The situation has ...

Sisi has used the GERD as a political instrument since he came to power. The dam allows him to cast himself as the defender ...