Ethiopia’s insistence on filling the reservoir without an agreement is a major sticking point for Egypt.

Egypt thinks Ethiopia has dragged out the talks to gain bargaining power as construction advances. The dam is now over 70% complete. Belligerence in Cairo has led to stubbornness in Addis Ababa, ...

A colossal dam is near completion in Ethiopia, a project so large it could bring electricity to half of the country. But downstream in Egypt, the dam is a giant, menacing barrier.

Environmental scientists representing Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan are at the heart of an increasingly bitter dispute over Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam, which Ethiopia is building on the Nile ...

The 1959 Egypt-Sudan agreement consolidated the previous agreement allocating most of the Nile’s water to Egypt and Sudan, and neglecting upstream countries like Ethiopia, which contributes over ...

Egypt has said Ethiopia’s move to resume filling a reservoir behind the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam threatens the Nile region’s peace and security. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images.

Negotiations between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt, in a long-running dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile, have broken down.

Ethiopia’s foreign minister summoned the U.S. ambassador to seek ... a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said downstream Egypt will “blow up” the project it has called an ...

Egypt and Ethiopia are inching, slowly but surely, toward conflict. Negotiations over the construction and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile — which Egypt fears will ...