An opaque agro-industry razes Cameroon’s forests with impunity

An opaque agro-industry razes Cameroon’s forests with impunity

By Madeleine NGEUNGA Credits: This investigative story is the first part of a series co-published by InfoCongo, Oxpeckers and The Museba Project, with support from the Pulitzer Center's Rainforest Investigations...
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Investigation raises concerns over plastic waste accumulation on the shores of Africa’s Rift Valley lakes

Investigation raises concerns over plastic waste accumulation on the shores of Africa’s Rift Valley lakes

By Water Journalist Africa An investigation into the concentration of microplastics in some Africa Rift Valley lakes has found no traces of microplastics there. However, the plastic wastes are visible...
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River Nile, a freeway of plastics from African great lakes to Mediterranean Sea

River Nile, a freeway of plastics from African great lakes to Mediterranean Sea

Fredrick Mugira, Bertha Fellow Two small rivers in western Uganda: Mpanga, and Rwizi, are choking on plastic waste, carrying it to lakes that drain into the River Nile. Once in...
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Polluted by custodians: Fishers pollute African Great Lakes with plastics

Polluted by custodians: Fishers pollute African Great Lakes with plastics

Fredrick Mugira, Bertha Fellow When the sun had nearly set, John Depari and two other fishers slowed down their motorized boat and said to one another, "It is here," before...
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From source to water bodies and dining table: Tracking the journey of plastics in Uganda

From source to water bodies and dining table: Tracking the journey of plastics in Uganda

Fredrick Mugira, Bertha Fellow 25th April 2022 Last February, Ramathan Kimbugwe, the CEO of Prowess Communications Company, was jogging early morning when he noticed something strange about a river in...
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A Ugandan city powered by solar welcomes COP26 agenda to speed up affordable cleantech

A Ugandan city powered by solar welcomes COP26 agenda to speed up affordable cleantech

Fredrick Mugira, November 23 2021  A city in southwestern Uganda has welcomed the new Glasgow Breakthrough Agenda that over 35 world leaders signed at the UN summit on climate change...
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How gorillas stole a Ugandan forest from humans, bloomed it as it bloomed them

How gorillas stole a Ugandan forest from humans, bloomed it as it bloomed them

Fredrick Mugira. December 18, 2020 This story was first published by New Vision In the shadows of giant trees, deep within the Bwindi Impenetrable forest, nature is at its rawest....
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Explainer: Five reasons why trees are a solution to the climate crisis

Explainer: Five reasons why trees are a solution to the climate crisis

Monica Evans As the 28th UN Climate Conference (COP28) approaches, and countries prepare to take stock of progress in emission reduction since the adoption of the Paris Agreement through the first...
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Opinion: Green spaces for everyone, everywhere  

Opinion: Green spaces for everyone, everywhere  

The writer, Zhimin Wu, is the Director, Forestry Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. A few years ago, a university professor came up with the ”3-30-300” rule....
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Vanishing glaciers: Climate change impacts culture, livelihoods and health in western Uganda as the Mountains of the Moon glaciers disappear

Vanishing glaciers: Climate change impacts culture, livelihoods and health in western Uganda as the Mountains of the Moon glaciers disappear

BY ALEX BALUKU Selevest Kule Walyuba is a resident of Nganji village, Kilembe sub-county in the western district of Kasese in Uganda. Walyuba’s sub-county is the foothills of Mount Rwenzori....
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New media tools for water journalism: How to leverage the modern digital toolbox

New media tools for water journalism: How to leverage the modern digital toolbox

Water Journalist Africa, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) 2022 was a year of intensifying water risks worldwide; rivers and reservoirs reached historic lows, flooding devastated regions, and droughts caused...
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Bungoma residents mull relocation as dumpsite smell makes environment toxic

Bungoma residents mull relocation as dumpsite smell makes environment toxic

Tony Wafula Located in Kenya's fertile Western region and at the foot of Mount Elgon, Bungoma County is a dream home area for many people- except the area residents who are...
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A lifestyle conservation brand changes people’s lives in Uganda, empowering them to conserve endangered mountain gorillas

A lifestyle conservation brand changes people’s lives in Uganda, empowering them to conserve endangered mountain gorillas

Derrick Amoako and Big Gorilla Story Project That Gorilla Brand is helping the endangered mountain gorilla in Uganda and the human communities surrounding their habitats live improved lives. The Big...
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With a singular focus on plastic pollution and its effect on water bodies, this project investigates the origin, impact, and solutions to plastic pollution in specific areas of the Western Rift Valley lakes.

THE CHOKING NILE


What does the future hold for the basin’s lifeline amidst rampant plastics pollution?

Healed by the sun

Healed by the sun: Solar energy lights the way for quality rural health in East Africa during Covid-19

Uganda’s First Oil: What is at Stake?

The effects of potential oil spills and infrastructure development in the ecologically sensitive Albertine Region, which contributes 30% of Uganda’s fish stocks.

Champions of Sustainability

How are East Africans surviving amidst climate change? Youth in communities across East Africa are launching innovations to adapt to the region’s changing climate, a cross-border project led by InfoNile has found.

SHRINKING LAKES

Can East Africa Avoid Water Resources Apocalypse?

Water Hidden in Sand

Hidden in Sand

During dry spells, the rivers and streams in Karamoja region dry and valley dams including Kobebe go silent as communities seek alternative water sources. All that remains of the one-time flooded areas is sand.

sucked dry

WHO OWNS THE WATERS OF THE NILE? A yearlong cross-border data journalism investigation about large-scale foreign land deals in the Nile River basin has found that foreign investors are acquiring huge swaths of lands in the region, displacing communities and exporting profits.

The Pandemic Poachers

Covid-19 threatens to reverse fragile gains in wildlife conservation in East Africa

#WildEye East Africa Map, Produced in Partnership With Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism.
#WildEye East Africa allows you to track environmental crime across the region.

Geodata journalism. Mapping stories on water issues in the Nile Basin.

Big Gorilla Story

Big Gorilla Story is a project of Water Journalists Africa dedicated to inform, educate and inspire a passion for conservation in people to protect the endangered mountain Gorillas and the rainforests they live in, through short newsy video stories.

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