Ethiopia announced on Thursday it has completed construction of its massive Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile and ...

Prime Minister Abiy calls Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam ‘a shared opportunity’ for Egypt and Sudan - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Thursday announced the completion of the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam ...

Opinion - In a recent and provocative statement, U.S. President Donald Trump falsely claimed that "America funded the Grand ...

But the 111-metre-high and 3.6-kilometre-wide Aswan High Dam, dwarfing the far smaller Aswan Low Dam built under British rule in 1902, crucially gave Cairo power to regulate the flow.

The Aswan Dam was a crucial construction project for Egypt after the 1952 revolution. President Gamal Abdel Nasser was looking to elevate Egypt as the leader of a pan-Arab unity movement.

Last week in Cairo, Premier Nasser and World Bank President Black sat down to take another look at the Aswan dam project. Nasser settled for roughly half the $600 million commitment he had once ...

Aswan High Dam. A large dam on the Nile River in southern Egypt completed in 1970 which provides irrigation and electricity to most of Egypt and forms one of the world's largest man-made ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 9, 1960, construction of the Aswan High Dam began in Egypt. It would be the first time flooding on the Nile ...

Half a century since Egypt's ground-breaking Aswan dam was inaugurated with much fanfare, harnessing the Nile for hydropower and irrigation, the giant barrier is still criticised for its human and ...