Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Funding calls had gone out since the project was launched in 2011, with the government also issuing bonds to fund construction of ...

KEBRIBEYAH CAMP, Ethiopia, 6 Feb (UNHCR) - Over the years, Somali refugees in this area of Ethiopia have gradually returned to their homeland, but a life-sustaining water system originally installed ...

Ethiopia has high hopes for its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which is expected to double the nation's electricity capacity. But the mega dam has long been a source of tension with neighbors Sudan ...

The Italian Ambassador to Ethiopia, Sem Fabrizi, met with the Ethiopian Minister of Water and Energy, Habtamu Itefa. (ANSA) ...

Awash-Malkasa — Dereje Abdeta dips a bucket into the polluted waters of the Awash River to take a sample just a few meters from where a group of young herders have brought their cattle to drink. "It ...

The prospect of water wars is a long-running and active debate, with everyone from high-ranking U.N. officials to renowned hydro-politics experts voicing their concern about the perceived risks.

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 ...