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An InfoNile Original Feature  For the past 100 years, smooth docking at Kigoma Harbor of Lake Tanganyika was almost daily routine for MV Liemba, one of the world’s oldest ships, manufactured about 100 years ago in Germany. But now things have changed. Near-flawless docking is impossible! The lake is shrinking. The shoreline is rugged. And […]

Unequal distribution of water sources and climate change impacts are worsening the problem of lack of access to clean drinking water in several African countries. This is according to Lydia Olaka, a Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study fellow. Olaka who is with the Department of Geology at the University of Nairobi, is undertaking a study […]

 in Zanzibar Adverse flush floods and weather conditions across many African countries within the Great Africa Lakes Region are set to affect gross domestic products for agro-based economies if regional trade blocs do not work together in providing collective solutions. Already, Malawi and Uganda, which are also landlocked countries, are being affected in one way […]

The road leading to Murito meanders through small and large scale agricultural farms but reaches this once infamous village in Tarime, Mara region of Northern Tanzania. Two years ago, before a gold refining pond was constructed in this village, Murito was like any other remote villages in northern Tanzania. But now, this dynamic community, where […]

Konjit Teshome Landslide in South Oromia region of Ethiopia kills 23, on Saturday. It is reported that 16 of the fatalities were women.  FANA broadcasting corporate reported that the landslide happened after hours of heavy rains in the evening.  Six people also injured and more than 30 domestic animals killed.

Ishraqa Abbas Ishraqa Abbas Journalists are not the only ones who face great challenges in terms of Nile water information. The experts, scientists and politicians involved are also facing these challenges, making the mission of media harder. As highlighted by a scientific workshop that discussed the problems of communication and scientific information relations, between the […]

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, […]

Nyamiti Kayora and Sylvester Bulengela By Nyamiti Kayora and Sylvester Bulengela In Nyamatongo village, Sengerema District of Mwanza Province can be found Joseph Kando Mkama, a well known fisherman, who goes by the name “The Dove” among his contemporaries. He has just been caught by law enforcers in possession of illegal fishing nets worth more […]

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Konjit Teshome Raging floods in the Shabelle Zone of Ethiopia’s Somali region have affected 162.000 people, and displaced 92.000 people of these, in May. UN office for coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Ethiopia revealed that floods, caused by heavy rains, in Shabelle Zone destroyed 5.000 homes.

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 […]

Flow May 3rd, World Press Freedom Day was celebrated all around the world. Two special – and personal – mentions: the first one for my colleague Iginio Gagliardone (University of Wits, Johannesburg), lead researchers with Nicole Streamlau (University of Oxford) and Monroe Price (University of Pennsylvania), of the UNESCO report World Trends in Freedom of Expression […]