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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The story of Sucked Dry: a cross-border data journalism investigation exposing how foreign investors are quietly staking their claim to large swaths of land in Africa’s Nile River basin
InfoNile Team April 06, 2020 River Nile, the world’s longest river, stretches through 11 countries in Africa: Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, DRC, Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Egypt. Over 257 million people live within the Nile Basin, depending on the river to support their livelihoods. Water Journalists Africa maintains a network across the […]
Posted 06 Apr 2020 in Climate Change&Land&Water Cooperation And Diplomacy&Water Resources&Water Resources, Climate Change and Sanitation -
Experts reveal what it takes to ensure climate resilient water supply in East Africa
Hannah Pole, March 03, 2020 Ensuring continuous access to groundwater via multiple water sources and technologies supported by on-going monitoring and external support, will make drought-prone communities in east Africa better equipped to cope with climate change, according to a new study. A comparison of several thousand rural water supplies during the 2015-16 drought in […]
Posted 10 Mar 2020 in Climate Change&Land&Water Journalists Africa&Water Resources -
Sebei Youths turn human Waste into cooking fuel
By Melanie Aayou, February 25, 2020 A group of young people, majority women in Kapchorwa district Sebei Sub region, Eastern Uganda, have started a new project which is using solar energy to transform human and livestock waste into efficient cooking fuel. Pick It Clean, an upcoming local social enterprise – a for-profit company also focused […]
Posted 25 Feb 2020 in Climate Change&Land&Water Resources -
Land restoration in Ethiopia pays off but climate change necessitates many strategies
INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE (CIAT) January 15, 2020 A combination of land restoration activities can boost crop yields — in some cases as much as 170 percent — and soil carbon but increased runoff due to climate change and land-use change make degradation a continued threat In the last decade, Ethiopia has invested more […]
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Tana River Bears the Cost of Development
Geoffrey KamadiFirst Published by Science Africa January 15, 2020 It could easily pass for anybody’s idea of paradise on earth. The lush vegetation lining River Tana’s banks is so luxurious, that movement is made near-impossible at certain sections of the river channel. No two mdau boats (dug-out canoes made usually from the almond tree (Terminalia catappa) trunk […]
Posted 15 Jan 2020 in Water Journalists Africa&Water Resources&Water Resources, Climate Change and Sanitation -
Decline in insect populations worry East Africans
Fredrick Mugira in Uganda and Jacob Mugini in Tanzania hhFirst published by New Vision The national environment agency – NEMA says the major reasons why the southwestern region and other regions in Uganda no longer receive grasshoppers in big numbers are: change in climate and wetlands’ destruction. In the not so distant past, it would […]
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The resurrection of Lake Haramaya: Hope and Challenges
By Konjit TeshomeFirst published by Ethiopian Observer January 15, 2019 Once upon a time, one of Ethiopia’s beautiful and famous Lakes, Lake Haramaya, was a source of life for human beings and animals and a home of beautiful birds in the eastern part of the country. Recreational events, marriage ceremonies and public Holidays were held […]
Posted 15 Jan 2020 in Water investment&Water Journalists Africa&Water Resources -
Trapped in the Buffer Zone: Ugandan communities forgotten in the fight against climate change
By Annika McGinnis January 15, 2020 On the shores of Lake Victoria, southeastern Uganda, a Norwegian timber plantation sells carbon credits on the international carbon market as part of the global effort to fight climate change. Climate finance was designed to bring money and development to the local communities that host such major tree-growing projects. […]
Posted 09 Jan 2020 in Climate Change&Water Resources -
Mt. Elgon Landslides Survivors Plant 30,000 Trees through a Village Savings Group to Fight Climate Change
By: Javier Silas Omagor December 11, 2019 Five years ago when Musa Mandu told his wife and relatives that he was going to quit his local government job to fight against climate change in Manafwa district, they were extremely upset. “They didn’t understand what that meant. They never thought this would sustain me and my […]
Posted 11 Dec 2019 in Climate Change