The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has been completed, marking what Ethiopian officials describe as a generational victory. The project, which took 14 years to finish, demonstrates the country ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The rainy season is starting in East Africa, triggering fears that the reservoir of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam could be overfilled and that last year’s floods in Egypt and Sudan may be ...

CAIRO — Ethiopia claimed Monday that its recently inaugurated dam has helped lessen floods that have hit Sudan, as speculation rose over whether it has actually caused the deluges. Sudan on Saturday ...

Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty blamed a lack of coordination over Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) for the severe flooding in Sudan.

Ethiopia inaugurated the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on September 9, which was, to all intents and purposes, an epochal event. Built across the Nile, it is the largest hydroelectric dam in ...

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 ...