About Us

InfoNile is a cross-border group of geojournalists with a mission to uncover critical stories on water issues in the Nile River Basin through data-based multimedia storytelling.

We seek to bridge the gap between scientists and researchers, journalists, and the public, in order to increase mutual awareness of water issues of this ancient and significant river.

Why the River Nile

The Nile River, the world’s longest river, winds through 11 countries in Africa and is crucial to many of these nations’ economies, diplomacy and wellbeing. The river is also a world biodiversity hotspot and the backbone to many of Africa’s fragile ecosystems.

Today, it is under new and evolving threats: climate change, population and economic growth, transboundary hydropolitics, and the building of large-scale dams that threaten to reduce water availability for countries highly dependent on the Nile’s waters – just to name a few.

InfoNile seeks to bridge the gap between scientists and researchers, journalists, and the public to increase mutual awareness and understanding of the various dimensions of water issues in this ancient and significant river.

What Do We Do?

We provide story grants, training and mentorship to journalists across the Nile Basin to help them conduct in-depth stories on water, environment, biodiversity and climate change issues. We highlight stories of solutions that are working to solve issues such as climate change and wildlife trafficking in local communities. In partnership with Code for Africa, we train and mentor journalists in data journalism, visualization and geojournalism.

We produce original cross-border investigations, including on foreign land deals, wildlife trafficking and conservation, climate change, and the impact of large-scale dams; in such a way, we promote collaboration across countries and new geo-storytelling techniques such as data-based maps, drone videos and satellite imagery.

We create interactive, actionable maps on issues of water and environment, and we “map” our stories onto these maps to add a human layer to the data. InfoNile is part of Water Journalists Africa, the largest network of journalists reporting on water issues on the African continent.

We have received funding from various media development organizations, water research institutes, and other funders interested in environmental conservation. Interested in supporting under-covered environmental reporting? Please contact us at [email protected]. You can share our interactive maps or embed one on your site. All data is open-source and available to download.

Our Impact

250+

journalists trained

1000+

Youth SciComm Competition

400+

Stories produced

550+

NileWell platform

10+

cross-border investigations

999+

InfoNile Whatsapp Chat

Public Impacts

Mnamo mwezi Agosti 2023, baada ya habari ya Jonas Kiriko kuhusu ufisadi katika taasisi za kuhifadhi wanyamapori, Wizara ya Mambo ya Nje ya Marekani iliwaidhinisha maafisa kadhaa wa DRC, wakiwemo wakurugenzi wa zamani wa Taasisi ya Uhifadhi wa Mazingira ya Kongo na CITES, kuwazuia kuingia Marekani.

Kutokana na habari ya Aimable Twahirwa, Wizara ya Mazingira ya Rwanda iliunda maeneo zaidi ya hifadhi za kreni ili kuendeleza juhudi za uhifadhi. Bodi ya Maendeleo ya Rwanda (RDB) imeanza kushirikiana na Chama cha Uhifadhi wa Wanyamapori cha Rwanda (RWCA) na wadau wengine ili kukomesha biashara haramu na ufugaji wa ndani wa Gray Crown Cranes.

Habari ya Prosper Kwigize iliangazia ukiukwaji katika mradi wa maporomoko ya maji ya Rusumo, ambapo mafuriko yaliathiri jamii, Hivyo, Mkandarasi alipewaonyo kwa kupigwa faini ya Tsh 10m kutoka Baraza la Uhifadhi wa Mazingira la Tanzania.

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A Finnish water NGO operating in the Middle East and North Africa showed significant interest in my story and reached out to share details about their cost-effective, ready-to-use purification units, which can be adapted for rural areas or integrated into city homes.

Rawnaa Al-MAsry ,Scidev.net MENA, Egypt

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Working on the Infonile project has deepened my understanding of marginalized communities, showing how journalism can amplify voices and drive social change. It reaffirmed my belief in the power of storytelling to inspire transformation.