Up to 10.3 million hectares of land have been acquired by investors in the 11 countries that form the Nile River basin since 2000, most from foreign companies. This map shows data collected on large-scale land deals by the Land Matrix, an independent global land monitoring initiative, between 2000 and 2019. Click on a data […]

Sudan lost most of its highest producing oil fields when South Sudan seceded in 2011, but it still controls much of the oil infrastructure, including the only oil pipeline for South Sudan to transport its oil resources to the port on the Indian Ocean. The oil blocks remaining in northern Sudan, including the Higlieg fields […]

Each area on the map is the co-ordinates of an oil or gas "block", "field" or "concession" and provides basic information about contractors and available contracts.

Since 1840, in the 11 countries of the Nile Basin, 153 dams have been built or are currently being completed. This map color-codes dams based on three time periods of completion: those completed before 1970, those completed between 1970 and 2017, and those currently being completed.