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The Awash Valley Irrigation Development Projects form one of Ethiopia’s most historic and important irrigated agricultural corridors. Built around the Awash River, the...
The Bura and Galana-Kulalu irrigation projects represent two of Kenya’s most important efforts to transform the lower Tana River region and the semi-arid coastal hinte...
The Tana-Beles development corridor is one of Ethiopia’s most strategic water, energy, and irrigation landscapes. Built around Lake Tana, the Blue Nile/Abbay system, a...
The Mwea Irrigation Scheme in Kirinyaga County is Kenya’s leading rice irrigation system and one of East Africa’s most important irrigation projects. Supported by wate...
The Gezira Irrigation Scheme in Sudan is one of Africa’s most historic and influential irrigation systems. Fed by the Blue Nile through the Sennar Dam, it transformed ...
Koysha is a major 2,160 MW hydropower project under construction on Ethiopia’s Omo River. As part of the Omo-Gibe cascade, it is designed to strengthen national electr...
The Ruzizi III Regional Hydropower Project is one of Africa’s most important shared-river energy projects. Planned on the Ruzizi River between the Democratic Republic ...
The Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project stands as one of Africa’s great modern hydropower achievements. Built on the Rufiji River in Tanzania, the project has brought 2,...
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam stands as one of Africa’s greatest modern water infrastructure achievements. Built on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia, GERD has transform...
Eritrea’s Southern Region has implemented 41 potable water projects worth more than 84 million Nakfa between 2021 and 2025. The projects include solar energy systems, ...
Ethiopia’s Tana Subbasin is becoming the focus of a new water-security initiative that links watershed restoration, Integrated Water Resources Management, WASH, climat...
A new solar-powered irrigation scheme in Ethiopia’s Somali Region is helping communities improve access to water, strengthen crop and livestock production, diversify i...