the dam has been built around the Blue Nile as it continued to flow through the enormous building site. Builders worked on the vast structures on either side of the river without any problem.

Along with the White Nile, the other main source of the Nile River is the Blue Nile. The Blue Nile supplies the Nile with up ...

"Egypt was the gift of the Nile" the pharaohs said, and they worshiped the river as a god. Join the BBC's Africa correspondent Alastair Leithead and his team, travelling from the Blue Nile's ...