A view of the Blue Nile River canyon, the natural boundary between Ethiopia's Oromia and Amhara regions. (Yonas Tadesse for The Washington Post) Max Bearak is The Washington Post's Nairobi bureau ...

The GERD project, located on the Blue Nile River, began in 2011 with the ambitious goal of boosting Ethiopia's energy production and fostering economic growth. The $4.6 billion project is central ...

Most of the Nile River flows originate from the highlands in Ethiopia and flow northward to ... The Nile in Egypt is fed by two branches: The Blue Nile from the Ethiopian Highlands accounting ...

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as it began producing electricity from its mega-dam on the Blue Nile in Guba Woreda, Benishangul Gumuz Region, Ethiopia ... on the River Nile that ...

Prof Julien Harou, Chair of Water Engineering at The University of Manchester and corresponding author of the study At the heart of the dispute lies the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) - a ...

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, now under construction across the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia and scheduled to be completed in 2017, will be Africa's largest hydroelectric power plant with a ...