Ethiopia says it has completed building a mega-dam on the Blue Nile that has long been a source of tension with Egypt and ...

Sudan and Egypt are concerned about its effect on their water supply, but Abiy says the dam will benefit them all.

Sudan also has some older dams along Nile tributaries, like the Blue Nile's Sennar Dam, which opened in 1925, or the Atbara's Khashm el-Girba Dam, which opened in 1964.

Ethiopia says its mega-dam on the River Nile is now complete, following years of tensions with Egypt and Sudan over its construction that many feared would lead to war in Africa.

Measuring 6,695 kilometers (4160 miles), the Nile is the longest river in the world, with one tributary, the White Nile, starting in South Sudan and the other, the Blue Nile, in Ethiopia.

The modern pyramid is about 6 to 7 km away from the banks of the Nile River, and the Khufu tributary no longer exists, so it is difficult to know the exact environment in 2500 BC when the pyramid ...

The River Nile, which has controlled ... On the main tributaries, the Blue and White Niles, there are big lakes that need only dams at their outlets to turn them into ideal storage basins.

In Gaza and Africa, U.S. contracting firms led by former American intelligence and military officers are taking on aid delivery in conflict zones ...

Whether you count the start of the Nile as coming from the Semliki or the sources of the Kagera, either would put the Nile as the longest river in the world at 4,100 miles, Ondaatje says—just over the ...