InfoNile is marking World Water Day 2019 with 4 original multimedia stories on innovative solutions that are working to conserve wetlands in East Africa.
Special Projects
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The Dark Side of Sudan’s Oil
Decades of oil drilling in West Kordofan province was linked to water contamination, environmental changes and health effects for citizens. Details here…
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An Ancient River Divided
Water is becoming scarcer for the half a billion people living in Africa’s Nile River basin. Will Nile countries come together to find solutions or will the shared waterway tear them apart? Journalists from around the basin explore in an original series of documentaries and podcasts.
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Swamp City
Special Project exploring how urbanization destroyed a critical Kampala wetland and why it matters. By Annika McGinnis and Fredrick Mugira
Stories
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Concern Over Small Towns as Water Day is Celebrated
Emerging small towns have been identified as a direct threat to water, sanitation and hygiene sustainability. As the World Water Day is celebrated today, figures show Kenya’s per capita for water is dwindling rapidly.Haphazard development can only strain water resources more; there has been an 80 per cent drop in the past 45 years.Addressing the […]
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Saving Swamps in East Africa
InfoNile is marking World Water Day 2019 with 4 original multimedia stories on innovative solutions that are working to conserve wetlands in East Africa.
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WASTE to WEALTH: How Kenyan farmers are bringing life back to degraded Lake Victoria swamps
A 3-year project by Ecofinder Kenya, an NGO working in the Winam Gulf wetlands around Kisumu, offered families living in these Lake Victoria swamps incentives in exchange for them to conserve the wetlands By Annika McGinnis CLICK TO VIEW PROJECT Climate change, farming and dams severely affect Kenya’s wetlands – contributing to the country’s current […]
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Decades of wise use pay off for a Kabale wetland
Community ownership agreement in Mugandu-Buramba wetland has kept the wetland intact for 40 years while helping farmers gain livelihoods Story and multimedia by Fredrick Mugira Technical support by Annika McGinnis and Code for Africa CLICK HERE to see full multimedia story There are blooming flowers in Mugandu–Buramba wetland in the southwestern Uganda’s district of Kabale, […]
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Rwanda: Government eviction of developers from wetlands pays off, but more left to do
This story was supported by a grant from InfoNile and Code for Africa. By Leonce Muvuni The Rwandan government is working to clear developments and ban all illegal activities in wetlands in a bid to restore the ecological characteristics of the country’ wetlands. The move to clear areas designated as wetlands of all developments has […]
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Khartoum pollution. Environmental culture is absent
Khartoum raised its head, hoping that her illness get treated among the last set of constitutional amendments … but nothing happened, and so she returned to bury her head in the garbage. The capital of Sudan, which until 1950 was the cleanest among African capitals, has become one of the world’s most polluted cities. Experts […]
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UN report calls for urgent action to tackle chemical pollution as global production is set to double by 2030
Water Journalists Africa/ UN Environment-News Desk March 11, 2019 Countries will not meet the internationally agreed goal to minimize the adverse impacts of chemicals and waste by 2020, meaning that urgent action is required to reduce further damage to human health and economies, according to a UN report released today. The second Global Chemicals Outlook, presented during the […]
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Environmental Challenges in Sudan
The environmental challenges facing Sudan — a country in east Africa with an area of 1.88 million square kilometers — are major. The country, which has three climatic zones, each with their own biodiversity, is ravaged by war: conflict has broken out in 32.7% of its total area and that consume approximately two thirds of its total budget. Sudan […]
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Africa Sinking Deeper into Hunger
[DAR ES SALAAM] African leaders must have strong political will to tackle food insecurity as a new report shows that hunger is increasing after years of decline on the continent, an expert says. According to the report which was launched in Ethiopia this month (13 February), Sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected by hunger, undermining the […]