The Nile has always been more than a river. It is memory, identity and survival braided together across north-east Africa. Today, as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam rises on the Blue Nile, that ...

Activists from the Ethiopian community march in protest of Donald Trump's comments on Ethiopia and the Renaissance Dam on Oct. 29, 2020, in Washington. J. Countess/Getty Images President Donald Trump ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Funding calls had gone out since the project was launched in 2011, with the government also issuing bonds to fund construction of ...

Waterfall on the Blue Nile river in West Gojjam, Amhara Region, Ethiopia. This region is threatened by natural hazards such as flooding due to climate change. Global warming as well as recent droughts ...

US President Donald Trump has proposed reviving American mediation between Egypt and Ethiopia over the long-running Nile ...

On Sudan's Tuti Island, where the Blue and White Nile meet, the highest river waters since records began have left people struggling to hold back the rising floods. Wedged between the twin cities of ...

The Nile is the longest river in the world, coursing about 6,650 kilometers (4,132 miles) across northeastern Africa to meet the Mediterranean Sea at the broad, green delta in Egypt. The Nile’s ...

Ethiopia says its mega-dam on the River Nile is now complete, following years of tensions with Egypt and Sudan over its construction that many feared would lead to war in Africa. The contentious ...

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - At an open-air, riverbank factory where the Blue Nile and White Nile meet in Sudan, Mohamed Ahmed al Ameen and his colleagues mould thousands of bricks every day from mud ...

All great mysteries begin at the end and end at the very beginning. And for thousands of years, the Nile River was perhaps the world’s greatest mystery. Anyone can see where it ends, pouring northward ...

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 ...