Chinese contractor Gezhouba Group has halted work on the $800m Kandadji hydroelectric project in Niger after international sanctions prompted by the 26 July coup froze funding, Reuters reports. The 130MW…

A report by the Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO) has estimated that $158bn is needed to fix the US’ non-federal dams, although this falls to $34bn if repairs…

A Chinese construction supervisor at the Dasu hydropower project in Pakistan has been arrested on blasphemy charges after a crowd assembled to protest over alleged remarks he made that workers…

Ethiopia said Friday that its Grand Renaissance Dam on the Nile is 90% complete 12 years after work began, the Middle East Monitor reports. Faqrati Tamru, the vice-chair of the…