That prospect induces dread in Egypt, where the dam is seen as the most ... percent of Egyptians live along the Nile or in its teeming delta, and the river provides nearly all of their water.

Dam construction on international rivers often causes disputes over the downstream impact. But the Nile is different: few nations rely so completely on a single river as much as Egypt does.

This photo shows the dam at the end of the 2019 rainy season The long-running dispute between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over a massive hydroelectric dam being built on the River Nile shows no sign ...

But Egypt and Sudan are worried that the dam will curtail their share of the Nile’s waters as global warming and less rainfall also threaten to lower the river's level. The Nile provides nearly ...

one of the two tributaries of the River Nile. Sudan and Egypt insist an agreement on how Ethiopia will operate the new dam should be reached before the reservoir is filled. The countries have been ...

Egypt is trying to strengthen its diplomatic and military clout in Africa amid an escalating dispute with Ethiopia over the building of a huge dam on a tributary of the River Nile, writes Egypt ...

Egypt relies on the Nile River for 86 percent of its water, and has said the construction of the dam is a security concern. Ethiopia's parliament ratified a controversial treaty last week ensuring ...

But to Egypt, the dam threatens one of its most precious resources. Most of Egypt’s 102 million people live in the narrow Nile valley, along the river, and depend on it for everything from ...

"Egypt has had control politically of the Nile for millennia," Leithead ... they can turn off that river's flow." The dam could exacerbate shortages because as the reservoir behind it fills ...

And what if a drought hits the Ethiopian highlands, the source of the Nile River ... into debt to build a dam that will do so much damage to its northern neighbor, Egypt Those in the know are ...

A dispute over the Nile, the world’s longest river ... who depend on its water. Egypt is objecting to efforts by Ethiopia to start operating a $4.8 billion dam on a major tributary of the ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Negotiations between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan over the controversial dam that Ethiopia is building on the Nile River will resume Tuesday, according to the chairman of the ...