An InfoNile Original Feature By Prosper Kwigize For the past 100 years, smooth docking at Kigoma Harbor of Lake Tanganyika was almost daily routine for MV Liemba, one of the world’s oldest ships, manufactured about 100 years ago in Germany. But now things have changed. Near-flawless docking is impossible! The lake is shrinking. The shoreline […]
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.
Special Project exploring how urbanization destroyed a critical Kampala wetland and why it matters. By Annika McGinnis and Fredrick Mugira
Sixty-nine year-old Francis Opiyo only wanted a home where he could retire peacefully after serving as the Officer Commanding Police Division in Nyando. From his retirement benefits he managed to buy a house at the upmarket Green Park Estate that is located in Athi River for Sh6 million. The year was 2006. But his dream […]
The fact that biology tells us is life is the result of mutual existence. Nothing is capable to stand alone. Even human being that has the ultimate power to control the nature cannot live without the existence of plants and animals for life is the result of interdependence. Cognizant of this, Ethiopia has been implementing […]
An InfoNile Original Feature By Prosper Kwigize For the past 100 years, smooth docking at Kigoma Harbor of Lake Tanganyika was almost daily routine for MV Liemba, one of the world’s oldest ships, manufactured about 100 years ago in Germany. But now things have changed. Near-flawless docking is impossible! The lake is shrinking. The shoreline […]
Not far from the historical city of Timbuktu, the livestock breeders Kidan and his wife and daughter live peacefully, isolated from the city controlled by an extremist group. However, this isolation ends with a fisherman killing one of Kidan’s cows because of the destruction of fishing nets while drinking from the Niger River. Kidan rushes […]
Michelle Galloway Unequal distribution of water sources and climate change impacts are worsening the problem of lack of access to clean drinking water in several African countries. This is according to Lydia Olaka, a Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study fellow. Olaka who is with the Department of Geology at the University of Nairobi, is undertaking […]
In Ghana Island of Ukerewe District in Mwanza Region of Tanzania, fishermen are preparing for a fishing expedition in the evening, accompanied by researchers from the Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute (TAFIRI). They are in the last stages of a study to identify which fishing nets are suitable for what locations inside Lake Victoria. It follows […]
GEORGE MHANGO, in Zanzibar Adverse flush floods and weather conditions across many African countries within the Great Africa Lakes Region are set to affect gross domestic products for agro-based economies if regional trade blocs do not work together in providing collective solutions. Already, Malawi and Uganda, which are also landlocked countries, are being affected in […]
“By Jacob Mugini The road leading to Murito meanders through small and large scale agricultural farms but reaches this once infamous village in Tarime, Mara region of Northern Tanzania. Two years ago, before a gold refining pond was constructed in this village, Murito was like any other remote villages in northern Tanzania. But now, this […]
Landslide in South Oromia region of Ethiopia kills 23, on Saturday. It is reported that 16 of the fatalities were women. FANA broadcasting corporate reported that the landslide happened after hours of heavy rains in the evening. Six people also injured and more than 30 domestic animals killed.
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