How is Covid-19 impacting agricultural water management in the Nile Basin countries? Background and Context Agriculture is the mainstay of Africa’s economy accounting for between 20-35% of the GDP in many African States. The Covid-19 pandemic is a global health concern that continues to have devastating impacts on the economy of many African states. In […]

How Covid-19 impacted wildlife trafficking and conservation in East Africa, and how the media can help prevent another pandemic It’s been more than a year since the Covid-19 pandemic began – a devastating disease that emerged from interactions between humans and wildlife. At the same time, the pandemic has presented unique threats to wildlife across […]

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

Mapping vulnerability to COVID-19 in Africa’s Nile River Basin

The top InfoNile projects and stories of 2020, highlighting important stories in the Nile Basin around water access, climate change, wildlife and Covid-19.

Part 1 in The Damming of the Nile Webinar Series How can journalists combat political conflict and misinformation covering Africa’s soon-to-be largest hydropower dam? In August, Ethiopia started to fill the colossal Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on its segment of the Nile, a people-funded project that will become the largest hydroelectric power project in […]