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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 ...
Ethiopia’s prime minister said Thursday that a controversial power dam on the Nile is now complete, a major milestone for his ...
Ethiopia says it has completed building a mega-dam on the Blue Nile that has long been a source of tension with Egypt and ...
The pressing need to accelerate the establishment of a Nile Basin Commission topped the issues at this year's Nile Day celebrations on Feb. 22 in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
President Taye Atskesilassie of Ethiopia, who was chief guest at the regional celebrations, led the chorus saying the Nile Basin countries should remain resolute in their commitment to cooperation and ...
The Minister expressed Egypt’s objection to including a visit to the GERD in the “Nile Day” program, which is organized on February 22 of each year to mark the anniversary of the founding of the Nile ...
Journal of Water Resource and Protection Vol.11 No.10 (2019), Article ID:95936,20 pages 10.4236/jwarp.2019.1110075 Climate Trends of Temperature, Precipitation and River Discharge in the Abbay River ...
Since 2011, CIWA has catalyzed change by accelerating transboundary water cooperation in Sub-Saharan Africa to enable governments, river basin organizations, civil society groups, and others to make ...
In 2019, the International Crisis Group warned that "the Nile basin countries could be drawn into conflict because the stakes are so high". In 2020, Ethiopia began filling the reservoir.
The Nile River Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA) represents a collective effort to rectify historical inequities in the utilization of the Nile's resources, experts say. The CFA officially ...
The CFA, also referred to as the Entebbe Agreement, was originally signed in 2010 by several countries, including Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, and Burundi, with South Sudan joining ...