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.
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…
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.
Swamp City
Special Project exploring how urbanization destroyed a critical Kampala wetland and why it matters. By Annika McGinnis and Fredrick Mugira
South Sudan government imposes night curfew, asks employers to have some staff stay home
By Deng Daniel Ngor South Sudan President Salva Kiir has enforced a night curfew across the country for the next …
Leading Landless Women: African Rural Women Leaders Tell their Stories
By Fredrick Mugira Up to 10.3 million hectares of land has been acquired by investors from individuals, communities and governments …
How Egypt’s water feeds the Gulf
By Nada Arafat and Saker El Nour Vast expanses of green extend over the horizon, tended to by the advanced …
Uncertainty over laws fuel land grabs in South Sudan
By Paul Jimbo South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, has been grabbing international news headlines, not for any good reasons …
Sucked Dry: Foreign Land Deals Threaten to Impair River Nile, Displace Millions
WHO OWNS THE WATERS OF THE NILE? A yearlong cross-border data journalism investigation about large-scale foreign land deals in the Nile …
Rose: The Flower Impairing Blue Nile River and Communities in Ethiopia
By: Ayele Addis Ambelu This story was produced in partnership with InfoNile and Code for Africa with support from the …
In Eastern Uganda, a New Solar-Powered Irrigation Project Helps Farmers Save Wetlands
Farmers in Uganda’s Eastern district of Paliisa used to grow crops within the Limoto wetland. But this caused the natural …
Trapped in the Buffer Zone: Uganda forest communities cast aside in the fight against climate change
By Annika McGinnisAn InfoNile Original Investigation On the shores of Lake Victoria, southeastern Uganda, a Norwegian timber plantation sells carbon credits on …
Refugees turn human waste into cooking fuel as alternative to protect trees and combat climate change
By Robert Ariaka December 30, 2019 A group of South Sudanese Refugee women in Arua district is manufacturing briquettes out …
