Lake Turkana’s clear waters emerge like a glassy screen, breaking through the rugged rocks and dry earth that precede its approach. This most northerly of Kenya’s lakes, on the border with Ethiopia, ...

Reminiscent of an artist’s pallet, this striking false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission features Lake Abbe in northeast Ethiopia. Visible as the large round dark area, Lake ...

There is a constant hum around Ethiopia's enormous Lake Dembel -- the sound of its water steadily being sucked out by pumps. The pumps irrigate farms all around the lake, which is four times the size ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Redwan Mohammed leads a project to restore Ethiopia’s Ziway-Shalla river basin, which is under pressure due to deforestation and erosion.

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 ...

Namhla Thando Matshanda receives funding from the National Research Foundation. The formal launch of Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in September 2025 made news across the world. There was ...

Ethiopia officially inaugurated Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam on Tuesday, a project that will provide energy to millions of Ethiopians while deepening a rift with downstream Egypt that has ...

Lake Dembel, a vast lake in central Ethiopia which provides for wildlife and thousands of people, is being pumped dry, environmentalists say. The pumps irrigate farms all around the lake. "If things ...