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Ethiopia has attained its second-year target for filling a mega-dam on the Blue Nile River that has stoked tensions with downstream countries Egypt and Sudan, an official told AFP on Monday. “The first filling already was done last year. The second one is already done today. So today or tomorrow, …

The three countries discussed Ethiopia’s mega-dam at a UN Security Council meeting; significant disagreements remain between the three parties as Ethiopia fills the dam for the second year in a row. The UN Security Council session on Ethiopia’s Nile River dam got heated Thursday as Egypt and Sudan voiced serious …

Egypt has said it received an official notice from Ethiopia that it had started the next phase of filling a controversial huge dam on the Nile River’s main tributary, raising tensions days before an upcoming meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the issue. In a statement late on …

The United Nations Security Council is set to meet on Thursday on Ethiopia’s mega-dam project, which has sparked fears in downstream Sudan and Egypt over their water supplies, diplomats said. Both nations have been pushing Ethiopia to ink a binding deal over the filling and operation of its Grand Ethiopian …

Sudan asked the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to meet and discuss a dispute over a giant dam being built by Ethiopia on the Blue Nile, a government statement said.

Sudan and Egypt agreed on Wednesday to coordinate efforts to push Ethiopia to negotiate “seriously” on an agreement on filling and operating a giant dam it is building on the Blue Nile, a joint statement said. The two countries, which are downstream from the dam, issued the statement after African …

Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan will agree on a deal to fill the giant Blue Nile dam in two to three weeks, following mediation by the African Union to broker a deal to end a decade-long dispute over water supplies. Tortuous negotiations over the years have left the two nations and …

Ethiopia has reiterated it will start filling the reservoir of a controversial dam on the Nile – that has been at the center of a decade-long dispute in East Africa – even without an agreement from Egypt and Sudan. The construction of the $4.6bn Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on …

Ethiopia retracted from what had been agreed in Washington to settle the disagreement over the filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) said the Egyptian government last Friday. In a series of talks held in Washington mediated by the U.S Treasury Department and the World Bank, Egypt, Ethiopia and …

The irrigation and water ministers of Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt met in a virtual conference late Tuesday to discuss the resumption of trilateral talks on a $5 billion hydro dam Ethiopia is building over on the Nile River. Seleshi Bekele, Yasser Abbas, and Mohamed Abdel-Ati addressed procedural matters to resume …