Fifteen years after construction first broke ground and barely five months on from its inauguration, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has come once ...

But the U.S. is not perceived as an honest broker when it comes to the GERD. It’s not surprising that Sisi welcomed the White House’s engagement, since during Trump’s first term, the U.S. proposed an ...

On January 16, 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump sent a letter to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi proposing American involvement in resolving the ...

US President Donald J. Trump has offered to restart United States–led mediation between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Nile ...

A local media report caused a stir after it reported that in 14 years, at least 15,000 people may have diedduring the construction of the nearly $5 billion (€4.2 billion) Grand Ethiopian Renaissance ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday ripped the United States' decision to "finance" the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), ...

US President Donald Trump’s recent offer to revive US mediation between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian ...

The Nile has always been more than a river. It is memory, identity and survival braided together across north-east Africa. Today, as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam rises on the Blue Nile, that ...

President Donald Trump says he's ready to restart U.S. mediation between Egypt and Ethiopia over Nile River water sharing ...

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks during the first power generation ceremony at the site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in Guba, Ethiopia [File: Amanuel Sileshi/AFP] ...

Abdulhakim Shamsuddin was 14 and in high school in the city of Dire Dawa when he first heard that he could contribute to the building of a dam on the Blue Nile. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, ...

US President Donald Trump on Friday offered to mediate the long-running dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over the sharing ...