Egypt-Ethiopia row over River Nile dam
These are external links and will open in a new window/ The Grand Renaissance Dam is a source of national pride for Ethiopia Ethiopia is building the Grand Renaissance Dam, which when completed next year, will be Africa's biggest hydroelectric power plant. Its construction began in 2011 on the Blue Nile tributary in the northern Ethiopia highlands from where 85% of the Nile's waters flow. However, the mega dam has caused a row between Egypt and Ethiopia, with Sudan caught in between, which the US is now helping to mediate. At the centre of ...
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