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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 Network (RIN). “Are we ready to risk 60 thousand hectares for Camvert, a company that has no experience in oil palm plantations?” asked Samuel Nguiffo, […]

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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 on the major landing sites, raising fears over the whereabouts of these dangerous residues. The shorelines are littered with polythene bags and used plastic bottles […]

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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 his community. Thousands of used plastic bottles were heaping in Rwizi, a lifeline river for over five million people in southwestern Uganda, at a point […]

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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 in Glasgow to see countries and businesses work together to dramatically scale and speed up the development and deployment of clean technologies and drive down […]

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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 significant impacts on agriculture. 2023 is already seeing similar warning signs. As the summer months go on, water risks are becoming increasingly prevalent. Several regions […]

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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 Gorilla Story project, a project of Water Journalists Africa, talked to Leo Gripari, CEO of That Gorilla Brand, about how and why they have supported the […]

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920 million people could face conflict over the world’s rivers by 2050: what our study found in Africa

Sophie de Bruin, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project on the Nile River started operating in February 2022. It reinforced tensions between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt. The three countries rely most heavily on the Nile’s water. Sudan and Egypt consider the US$4.6 billion dam a threat to vital water supplies. Ethiopia sees […]

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University students spotlight priceless value of groundwater during InfoNile science communication competitions

Water Journalists Africa From Gambia to Burundi and Uganda, groundwater is being contaminated and threatened. And in the near future, it could be depleted due to human activities and consumption despite the lack of accurate data about how much remains underground. Climate change is already affecting groundwater in multiple ways. Rising temperatures and decreased rainfall […]

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Uganda’s First ever Red List for Fishes Shades Light on Conservation

Andrew Aijuka Ngege fish species (oreochromis esculentus) is a typical delicacy among fish-loving Ugandans. It is indigenous to Lake Victoria and its affluent rivers, lake Nabugabo, lake Kyoga basin, and the Victoria Nile. However, Ngege is a critically endangered fish species with a high risk of facing extinction. This assessment is entailed in Uganda’s first […]

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Action urged to scale up finance for Uganda’s water sector

Andrew Aijuka  It is a few months to the reading of Uganda’s National Budget. Uganda’s planning and budgeting are informed by national needs. So, in every fiscal year, the budget addresses a national need.  The Ministry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development in December 2022 tabled a National Budget Framework Paper totaling Shs 49.9 trillion […]

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UN leaders push for innovative financing for water as world grapples with water-related disasters

By Annika McGinnis More than 10,000 participants gathered at the United Nations headquarters and online to push for global attention to the world’s escalating water crisis during the UN 2023 Water Conference that convened from 22-24 March in New York. Co-hosted by the governments of Tajikstan and the Netherlands, the first UN Water Conference in 46 […]

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MSF France sounds alarm as Cholera cases in Malawi soar

By George Mhango, Blantyre Increasing cases of Cholera in Mangochi—one of the 24 affected districts in Malawi—has forced the international medical humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), to sound an SOS for the provision of more medical supplies to deal with the disease. This follows the visit to three treatment units, Koche, Monkey-Bay, and Cape […]