Ethiopia Blue Nile dams

Addis impatient for decision on aid for Blue Nile dams

Ethiopia is in a hurry to get started with studies of three large hydro projects on the Blue Nile and has asked Norway for NOK 42 million to get the job done.

Business September 02, 2013

Reviving support for Blue Nile mega-dams

They were to be the biggest dams in Africa. But Ethiopian ambitions put a sudden end to the support....

Business April 30, 2013

What Norway wants in Ethiopia

Funding for two mega-dams in Ethiopia has hung in limbo for more than year. In the meantime, Norwegian...

News May 08, 2012

Ethiopia becomes major Norwegian recipient in Africa

A multi-year pledge to Ethiopia’s low-carbon strategy - likely to exceed NOK 1 billion - can make the...

News December 22, 2011

Blue Nile dams: ‘lower Renaissance Dam to save Mandaya’

The Norwegian consultancy firm Norplan recommends that the Ethiopian government lower the height of the...

Business September 04, 2011

Nile Basin donors stunned by Ethiopia’s unilateral move

Donors that have supported the Nile Basin Initiative over the past decade are nervous about Ethiopia...

News July 08, 2011

Ethiopia’s hydro ambitions leave Norwegian aid project in shambles

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia surprised the world in late March when he launched an enormous...

Business June 22, 2011

Sudan and Egypt to bear brunt of impacts from Ethiopian mega-dam

Sudan and Egypt are likely to bear the brunt of impacts resulting from two massive hydropower projects...

News March 28, 2011

Norwegian hydropower actors eye burgeoning Ethiopian market

Promoting investment by Norwegian hydropower companies is a top priority of Norwegian aid to Ethiopia,...

Business March 03, 2011

Norplan proposes alternative site for Ethiopian high dam

The Norwegian clean energy aid package for Ethiopia focuses on turning two hydropower schemes on the...

Business December 30, 2010

Ethiopia Blue Nile dams

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