The biggest challenge to Cairo is the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Experts estimate that the hydropower project, which is under construction and is…
Year: 2012
War Over the Nile River
Ethiopia claims that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is needed for its own domestic electricity requirements. This dam, which is currently under…
STRATFOR: Egypt Is Prepared To Bomb All Of Ethiopia's Nile Dams
toppled President Hosni Mubarak in February 2011 when they announced new details about the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
IMF Urges Ethiopia to Slow Nile Dam Project to Protect Economy
The government began work on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, situated on the Blue Nile River near the Sudanese border, in April last year. The 80…
Wikileaks: Sudanese launchpad for Egyptian attack on
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will be Africa’s largest hydroelectric facility and will be built 40km upstream from Sudan on the Blue Nile River. Ethiopia…
In Ethiopia, a nation comes to bury Meles – and to praise him
The dynamics are similar to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam fundraising campaign: Both Meles and the Nile hydropower project – which signaled…
Morsi visits Ethiopia to seek unity in Nile nations over water
6bn) Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam – Africa’s largest hydroelectricity project. Egyptian officials believe the dam, under the specifications revealed, would…
Eastern El Dorado?
The jewel is the $4.7 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile. This should generate 5,250MW when finished, increasing electricity production…
Ethiopia's 'grand dam' rouses citizens, dismays critics
The $4.8 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will lift the country out of poverty, the government argues, by electrifying the country’s industrialization and…