LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Ethiopian middle-distance runner Diribe Welteji has been barred from the world track championships a day before her first race amid a legal dispute over allegedly missing ...

Looming high above the Blue Nile and stretching nearly two kilometres across, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has been a nation-building project and potential economic revolution 14 years ...

Egypt on Tuesday said it has submitted a letter to the UN Security Council warning against Ethiopia’s unilateral operation of its new Nile dam, describing the move as a “breach” of international law.

Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed at the official inauguration ceremony of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in Guba, on 9 September 2025. © Luis Tato ...

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Africa’s largest hydroelectric project, rises on the Blue Nile about 40 kilometers (28 miles) from the Sudanese border in Guba, which is around 580 ...

Ethiopia officially inaugurated Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam on Tuesday, a project that will provide energy to millions of Ethiopians while deepening a rift with downstream Egypt that has ...

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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — 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 ...

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Ethiopia’s reforestation project aims to plant 7.5 billion trees in 2025 alone. It’s improving green cover and offers other benefits. But what about aftercare? ‘If Bafana Bafana dare play Teboho ...

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