The Ethiopian government has denied that a project along Omo River could kill Lake Turkana, in response to a story carried in The Standard last month. The article, Ethiopia’s Dam Project Could Kill ...

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, ...

Ethiopia's Orthodox Christians are celebrating Epiphany, locally known as Timkat. Monday's celebrations commemorate the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

All three lakes used to be part of the same ancient body of water. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A trio of technicolor lakes in ...