Water Journalists Africa Felix Mwakyembe May 24, 2018 Joseph James, a resident of Dar es Salaam City supports his family by selling water to small scale gold miners at Itumbi Hamlet in Chunya District. He moved to the remote gold mining hamlet from Dar es Salaam, the busy commercial city of Tanzania, few years ago, […]

As the 600 MW Karuma Hydropower project edges towards completion, a crucial milestone is currently underway – the installation of hydro mechanical and electro-mechanical equipment. This set of equipment includes the turbine and associate parts like the bottom ring, head cover, wicket gate, turbine shaft, rotor and stator etc. “We are currently assembling the rotor […]

WJA Reporter The UN climate change negotiations have kicked off today in Bonn, Germany. The negotiations that will take place from 30 April to 10 May 2018, come at a critical time as countries work to finalise the rules and processes to operationalise the Paris Agreement, while the impacts of climate change continue to intensify. […]

For most El Molo people in Kenya, the past year has been the worst in living memory. Lake Turkana, the water body that they and their ancestors have depended on, is incapable of feeding them. This tiny tribe – with a population of less than 2000 – located on the southwestern shore of Lake Turkana, […]

October 10, 2017 Ministers from Least Developed Countries have committed to ambitious climate action further urging global community to step up support at UN climate change negotiations in Germany next month. Ministers and Heads of Delegation from the Least Developed Countries (LDC) group met in Addis Ababa to discuss the priorities of the LDC group […]

June 23, 2017 Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has told heads of state at the first ever summit of the Nile Basin heads of state to work for the social transformation of their people as the ultimate guarantor of the Nile basin’s security. “All Nile Valley countries should be assisted to develop and become first world […]