Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Funding calls had gone out since the project was launched in 2011, with the government also issuing bonds to fund construction of ...

KEBRIBEYAH CAMP, Ethiopia, 6 Feb (UNHCR) - Over the years, Somali refugees in this area of Ethiopia have gradually returned to their homeland, but a life-sustaining water system originally installed ...

Kenya, through the Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi, has declared its stance on the management ...

CAIRO — Ethiopia claimed Monday that its recently inaugurated dam has helped lessen floods that have hit Sudan, as speculation rose over whether it has actually caused the deluges. Sudan on Saturday ...

As the 39th summit of the African Union opened in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, the chair of the African Union Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, used his opening address to denounce what he ...

The prospect of water wars is a long-running and active debate, with everyone from high-ranking U.N. officials to renowned hydro-politics experts voicing their concern about the perceived risks.

GREAT BARRINGTON — Weyessa “Ace” McAlister’s heart kept pulling him back to his native Ethiopia. In the years after he was adopted from an orphanage by a Great Barrington family when he was 13, ...

Johannesburg — Africa's largest hydroelectric dam, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), on the Blue Nile is scheduled to open Tuesday to major fanfare in Ethiopia. The $5 billion dam project ...