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Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Can Ethiopia Become Africa’s Powerhouse?
December 19th, 2025
Via The Africa Report, a review of GERD thus far and how technical flaws, grid frailties and geopolitical tensions have meant the project has yet to deliver for the continent: The promises are immense. Last September, after 14 years of construction, Ethiopia inaugurated its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile. Standing 175m tall and spanning two […]
Read more »Rising Waters, Rising Tensions: Nile Floods Reopen Old Wounds Over Ethiopian Dam
October 6th, 2025
Via Modern Diplomacy, a look at how – Ethiopia, viewing the dam as essential for its development, has rejected Egypt’s accusations, stating that regulated water releases have actually mitigated flood damage: Rising waters of the Nile have flooded homes and fields in northern Egypt, forcing residents to evacuate by boat. In the village of Dalhamo, […]
Read more »Egypt Girds Itself for the GERD
September 10th, 2025
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how Egypt is responding to its lost of majority control of the Nile River: Ethiopia opened Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam on Tuesday, ending Egypt’s majority control of the Nile River. The controversial $5 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), which took 14 years to build, aims to double Ethiopia’s power generation […]
Read more »The Promise and Peril of Ethiopia’s New Mega Dam
September 8th, 2025
Via The Economist, a report on the potential regional impact of the GERD: WHEN ETHIOPIA inaugurates the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile on September 9th, it will be Africa’s largest hydropower source (see map). But to Ethiopians, millions of whom helped pay for it by buying shares, it is far more than […]
Read more »Ethiopia ‘Outfoxes Egypt’ over the Nile’s Waters with its Mighty Dam
September 8th, 2025
Via BBC, commentary on Ethiopia’s official inauguration of the Grand Renaissance Dam: After outfoxing Egypt on the diplomatic stage for more than a decade, Ethiopia is set to officially inaugurate one of the world’s biggest dams on a tributary of the River Nile, burying a colonial-era treaty that saw the UK guarantee the North African […]
Read more »Ethiopia’s Mega Dam On Nile ‘Now Complete’: PM
July 4th, 2025
As reported by France24, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Thursday said a multi-billion-dollar mega-dam on the Blue Nile that has long worried neighbouring countries is complete and will be officially inaugurated in September: The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), launched in 2011 with a $4-billion budget, is considered Africa’s largest hydroelectric project stretching 1.8 […]
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