Abdikhayr Mohamed Hussein, Bertha Fellow 2022 Somalia experienced disastrous droughts between 2000 and 2011, but the current dry spell is the worst in the last
Abdikhayr Mohamed Hussein, Bertha Fellow 2022 Somalia is facing the worst drought in decades following the failure of three consecutive rainy seasons since October 2020.
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
BY SHARON UDASIN Some 500 million people across 19 African nations remain water insecure, according to the first-ever United Nations assessment of water security across the
By Water Journalists Africa Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets on water, sanitation, and hygiene in Africa will require a dramatic acceleration in the
By Dr. Jenny Grönwall, PhD Groundwater is often referred to as an ‘invisible resource.’ Hiding under our feet, it is impossible to tell its presence
By Waterfront Do more trees always mean less water? This used to be the predominant scientific view, but new research paints a more nuanced picture.
By Tom Murphy – The Water Project Water is everywhere, but you often can’t see it. We are reminded of that fact in marking World
Covid-19 threatens to reverse fragile gains in wildlife conservation in East Africa
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.
Water is becoming scarcer for the half a billion people living in Africa’s Nile River basin. Will Nile countries come together to find solutions –
or will the shared waterway tear them apart?
The effects of potential oil spills and infrastructure development in the ecologically sensitive Albertine Region, which contributes 30% of Uganda’s fish stocks.
On the shores of Lake Victoria, a Norwegian timber plantation sells carbon credits on the international market, but the community that has lived on the land for generations is struggling to survive.
A 3-year project by Ecofinder Kenya, an NGO working in the Winam Gulf wetlands around Kisumu, offered families living in these Lake Victoria swamps incentives in exchange for them to conserve the wetlands
Special Project exploring how urbanization destroyed a critical Kampala wetland and why it matters. By Annika McGinnis and Fredrick Mugira.
