News from afar

The Blue Nile River is the Nile's greatest feeder and supplies around 85% of the water entering Egypt. Ethiopia is building its $5 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile, near the periphery with Sudan. Right when gotten done, it will be the greatest dam in Africa Ethiopia's energetic endeavor is planned to assist with lifting its rapidly creating people out of destitution. However, the new dam in like manner puts the leading body of the movement of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia's grip - and that has begun a power move nearby.

For the Egyptians, the Nile is, really, a lifeline. By a long shot the greater part of the country's 97 million people live along its banks.