Photographer Roger Anis spends two weeks traveling to villages in Sudan that were devastated by the extreme floods of 2020.

The Rothschild Giraffe, only found in Kenya and Uganda, is alarmingly decreasing in population and faces risk of extinction.

The top InfoNile projects and stories of 2020, highlighting important stories in the Nile Basin around water access, climate change, wildlife and Covid-19.

Youth in communities across East Africa are innovating to adapt to the region’s changing climate, a cross-border project led by InfoNile has found.

WHO OWNS THE WATERS OF THE NILE? A yearlong cross-border data journalism investigation about large-scale foreign land deals in the Nile …

Decades of oil drilling in West Kordofan province was linked to water contamination, environmental changes and health effects for citizens. Details here…

The plastic situation has been worsened by a lack of a petrol station on the island which means that all fuel products must be ferried from the mainland in bottles.

Fishermen on Mageta Island in Kenya are making five times less from their dwindling catches. The biggest challenge they are facing are the water bottles

Usenge is not just one of Lake Victoria’s top busy beaches but also the leading producer of solid waste that end up in the lake.
When fishermen go fishing, they carry soft drinks and snacks. They discard the plastic waste into the water after using.

Two teenagers in Kisumu, Kenya are developing a mobile application targeting the youth to help collect and recycle plastic waste

By Jenipher Asiimwe, Uganda Is plastic pollution intentional or it is done unknowingly? Who is responsible for protecting the lake …

Most villages in Tanzania do not have even a single litter bin.
In many parts of the shores of Lake Victoria, plastics are everywhere.
The fishing community is blamed for using illegal fishing nets made out of plastic
A 2015 study conducted in the Mwanza region of Tanzania found evidence of microplastics in at least 20% of Nile perch (Lates niloticus) and Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) species.

Using the Beat The MicroBead(BTMB) app, we randomly picked twelve cosmetics off a shelf in a supermarket to check if they contained microplastics.
Among the 11 products, 5 of them have microplastics in them. The products that have microplastic are; F and W exfoliating shower gel, Dove shower gel, Listerine Advanced Mouthwash(had sceptical microplastics), Pantene shampoo and conditioner and Johnson’s Face care gel wash. None of these products is a local product.
In humans, microbeads kill more than 1 million people. On average, an individual eats and inhales 70,000 plastic particles each year.

Women’s group in Kisumu creates products from plastic trash and water hyacinth, and has sent almost 300 orphans to school.

Polyethene, often used in bags, wrappers and films, contributes 60 per cent of analysed microplastic particles, thus making it the biggest of the plastic pollutants of Lake Victoria
Who is responsible for protecting the lake from pollution? What can be done to eradicate the said unsustainable human activities?