Legitimately registered in Uganda, Water Journalists Africa was established in 2011 in Cape Town, South Africa with support from the UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication.
Water Journalists Africa has since 2011, partnered with various international and Africa based organizations such as the UN-Water, The Water Channel, Water Integrity Network, 2030 Water Resources Group and UNESCO-IHE among several others to enhance reporting on Integrated Water Resources Management in Africa and promote interaction among African Journalists who report on water.
Some 700 journalists from 50 African countries to date are members of this network making it certainly the largest media network on the continent.
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Climate change’s imprint on the Nile Basin
Asmaa Nassar/ The Niles November 13, 2018 climate change and increasing human activity alongside the River Nile threatens this life-sustaining resource. By 2050, around a billion people will live in the countries through which the Nile and its tributaries flow. That alone will put enormous stress on the water supply. Governments are faced with challenges […]
Posted 13 Nov 2018 in Climate Change&Water Cooperation And Diplomacy&Water Resources -
Loss of lives at sea: Greenpeace calls on the Senegalese Government to improve safety at sea for small-scale artisanal fishermen
Water Journalists Africa October 25, 2018 The latest report published by the Directorate for the Monitoring and Protection of Senegalese Fisheries (DPSP) shows that in 2017, 92 accidents resulting in 140 deaths, mostly of artisanal fishermen, were recorded Greenpeace Africa has today, released a new documentary on the numerous cases of small-scale fishermen who have […]
Posted 25 Oct 2018 in Water Resources -
Africa needs to speak with one voice on climate issues, says Kenya’s Environment Minister
PAMACC News Agency October 12, 2018 The Seventh Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA–VII) has opened in Nairobi, Kenya with a strong call for Africa to prepare and speak with one voice when it goes to the next UN climate change talks (COP 24) in Katowice, Poland. Kenya’s Environment and Forestry Minister, […]
Posted 12 Oct 2018 in Climate Change -
IPCC report confirms the need to keep fossil fuels in the ground to achieve 1.5ºC, 350.org says
Our reporter October 09, 2018 One month after hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to demand real climate action as part of the Rise for Climate Mobilisation, the world’s scientists have issued their clearest call for avoiding the worst impacts of a warming world. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), UN-backed […]
Posted 09 Oct 2018 in Climate Change&Water Resources -
Cape Town drought should serve as a warning to African cities – city mayor
Fredrick Mugira 20th September 2018 After her city suffered a record drought, Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille says what befell the oldest city in South Africa should serve as a warning to vulnerable cities across the African continent. “There is no room to make mistakes,” stresses Patricia as she spoke in an interview with […]
Posted 21 Sep 2018 in Climate Change&Water Resources -
A solar powered borehole pump saves thousands of lives in Nigeria
Mohammed Ibrahim September 18, 2018 A solar powered borehole pump is providing clean water for communities and new opportunities to residents of Gora village in Kachia local government of Kaduna in Nigeria. The UNICEF Water project was founded by Department for International Development (DFID) in partnership with Kaduna State Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency […]
Posted 18 Sep 2018 in Water Resources -
Sanitation in Djibouti: A quarter of the population in the capital Djibouti City has no access to toilet facilities
Water Journalists Africa September 18, 2018 WITH vast amounts of aid flowing into government coffers and its strategic position boasting one of the busiest shipping lanes, Djibouti ought to be among the wealthiest countries in the African continent. However, the irony is that the tiny country situated in the eastern coast of Africa is among […]
Posted 18 Sep 2018 in Water Resources -
Ethiopia’s largest lake crippled by water weed and gaps in polices to conserve it
Dagim Terefe September 06, 2018 Lake Tana, the source of Blue Nile ranks the largest lake in Ethiopia. But it’s contaminated. Its pollution is attributed to surface and underground discharge of wastes; degradation of its wetlands; siltation; upstream river damming; excessive withdrawal of its water for various purposes and introduction of invasive alien species into […]
Posted 06 Sep 2018 in Water Resources -
‘God has abandoned us.’ Ugandan fishmongers cry out as mudfish nears extinction
By Cliff Abenaitwe September 05, 2018 For over 10 years, Amos Kamwesiga has been deriving a livelihood from mudfish. Nyakiraguju swamp on the outskirts of Buteraniro Town along in Mbarara district along Kampala-Kigali highway in South Western Uganda has been his ‘gold mine’. Every day, he could catch at least 700 mudfish traditionally known as […]
Posted 05 Sep 2018 in Water Resources -
A program that recruits village conservation teams to save Uganda’s chimps launched
September 3, 2018 Fredrick Mugira Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH), a nonprofit organisation that conducts programs to promote biodiversity conservation by enabling people, wildlife and livestock to coexist has launched the award winning Village Health and Conservation Teams (VHCT) model in communities living around Budongo Forest in Uganda. According to the founder and CEO Conservation […]
Posted 03 Sep 2018 in Climate Change