ADDIS ABABA, EthiopiaADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia and Egypt said the latest round of talks over a huge, highly contentious hydroelectric dam Ethiopia has built on the Nile’s main tributary again ...

Fiery rhetoric between Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam reveals deep-seated, ...

Egypt’s Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Hani Sweilem, met Monday with Ambassador Nermin El-Zawahry, assistant minister of foreign affairs and secretary-general of the Egyptian Agency for ...

The Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Dr. Hani Sweilem, held a meeting on Friday, October 10, 2025, to follow up on the efforts of the Nile River Development and Protection Sector to remove ...

Here's something that might surprise you: ancient Egyptians called the river "Ar" or "Aur," meaning "black," a reference to the rich, dark sediment that the Nile's waters carried from the Horn of ...

Nine years of talks and several fragile agreements over how to share the water of the world's longest river were almost thrown out of the window last week — all because of a bout of heavy rain.

On May 15, 2024, GWC’s Director of the Western Water Policy Program, Doug Kenney, and Professor and GWC Board Chair, Mark Squillace, met with a delegation from Egypt to discuss Egypt’s ongoing ...

File photo for the view of Egypt's Nile River, Cairo (file photo: AFP) Rainfall over the Nile River’s headwaters is expected to continue until the end of September, Egyptian Minister of Irrigation and ...

Water resources and irrigation minister stressed that Nile River water represents a national security issue for Egypt, stressing that the state will not compromise on protecting its water rights.

- The Acting Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Forests in River Nile State, Engineer Salah-Eddin Ali Mohamed Ahmed, met in his office on Monday with the Director of the Red Crescent Society's ...