How is Covid-19 impacting agricultural water management in the Nile Basin countries? Background and Context Agriculture is the mainstay of Africa’s economy accounting for between 20-35% of the GDP in many African States. The Covid-19 pandemic is a global health concern that continues to have devastating impacts on the economy of many African states. In […]

How Covid-19 impacted wildlife trafficking and conservation in East Africa, and how the media can help prevent another pandemic It’s been more than a year since the Covid-19 pandemic began – a devastating disease that emerged from interactions between humans and wildlife. At the same time, the pandemic has presented unique threats to wildlife across […]

InfoNile invites female journalists from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania to submit in-depth story proposals on plastic pollution of Lake Victoria. These stories are part of a series of stories meant to highlight the impact of plastic pollution, local innovations,  and will feed into a final data journalism project including interactive maps and stories. Whereas plastic […]

InfoNile invites photographers and photojournalists in Burundi, Democratic Republic of  Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda to submit proposals for an online multimedia photojournalism campaign to communicate River Nile-related stories and scientific information. Grants to produce photo stories will be up to USD 1000. The goal of this project […]

Part 1 in The Damming of the Nile Webinar Series How can journalists combat political conflict and misinformation covering Africa’s soon-to-be largest hydropower dam? In August, Ethiopia started to fill the colossal Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on its segment of the Nile, a people-funded project that will become the largest hydroelectric power project in […]

The rise of diseases such as Covid-19 is driven by wildlife trafficking, trade and increasing human-animal contact through deforestation, overpopulation and habitat loss. What is happening, why, and what can we do about it to prevent future pandemics? How can we reduce the spread of disease from animals to humans – and from humans to […]