Herodotus, often called the "Father of History," once emphasized the critical role rivers played in the development of ...

Ethiopians celebrate the progress made on the Nile dam, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sunday Aug. 2, 2020. Ethiopians in the capital celebrated the progress in the construction of the country’s dam ...

A 2020 assessment for the Nile Basin Initiative, an intergovernmental partnerships of governments along the river, put the total economic value of the Sudd for natural resources, regulating the ...

Stability in the Nile River basin and the Horn of Africa will therefore likely have to come from within the region itself—if it comes at all. Recent efforts by the African Union to mediate the GERD ...

The river stretches over 4,100 miles and flows through 11 countries. The Blue Nile, the artery that gives the river more than 80% of its waters, begins in Lake Tana in Ethiopia.

“The Nile is the most important thing for us,” says Jomaa, who at 17 is the latest generation of his family to work the river’s rich banks at Alty in Gezira state. “We certainly do not wish for ...

They are also rising in several river basins. Africa has 66 transboundary river basins. These include the Nile basin, and the Juba–Shebelle and Lake Turkana basins in the Horn of Africa.