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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 […]

June 12, 2017 Leading non-state actors and civil society groups from across Africa have called on African governments to kick-start the process of designing an African Rule Book for the implementation of the Paris Agreement. The book, according to them, will help in galvanising a robust presentation of African perspectives in the Paris Rule Book […]

June 02, 2017 As Donald Trump finally announced his long-awaited decision for the U.S. to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, civil society representatives and social movement leaders from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the United States vowed to build people power to address the climate crisis. “The U.S. pull-out from the Paris Agreement should […]

June 02, 2017 An IAEA project shows that significant reserves of good quality water are available in Africa’s drought-prone Sahel region. Pollution is still limited and has not yet become a serious threat to these vital resources. The findings, compiled in five reports, are the result of a four-year Agency effort to help 13 countries […]

May 16, 2017 For hundreds of years, it has been a home to several reptiles, plants, animals, birds and insects — becoming synonymous with hospitality in the wildlife world. In fact, many of Mara River Basin wetland’s plants, animals and insects cannot be found anywhere else in Kenya and Tanzania. But nowadays that synonymous does […]

May 16, 2017 Even with some large arid and semi-arid areas, the Africa’s vast water resources are, on average underutilized, with only about 2-3 percent of renewable water resource in use, compared to five percent worldwide. Africa is also home to an abundant supply of labour for agriculture-related products and services. However, 153 million individuals […]

May 15, 2017 The importance of water management for sustainable development and stability in the Middle East and North Africa is at the heart of the League of Arab States’ conference on the Sustainable Development Goals which opened in Cairo yesterday. The World Bank Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa, Hafez Ghanem, […]

May 15, 2017 In the middle of Lake Burullus, it is sometimes deafeningly quiet. There are no rustles of the trees in a forest and no highway traffic noise. But this tranquility could soon be a thing of the past. Reason? The lake, located in the Egypt’s Nile Delta, is steadily reducing in size due […]

Kenya is among the three countries together with Uganda and Tanzania covered by Lake Victoria basin. It’s estimated that close to 30 million people depend on the lake both directly and indirectly. Its fish are an important source of food, and the lure of the lake, the evasive source of the Nile, draws tourists to […]

Of the 6.2 million people affected by the drought ravaging Somalia, more than 1.5 million are women of childbearing age. UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is particularly concerned about the fate of 607,000 pregnant women across the country who need maternal health services to ensure a safe pregnancy and delivery, including emergency obstetric services. […]

One of the key outcomes of the COP22 in Marrakech was the establishment of a new transparency fund with the injection of some USD50 million by some developed countries, to encourage transparency efforts in the fight against climate change. African civil society organizations under the aegis of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) to […]

April 23, 2017 Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has rallied other African leaders to harmonize their thinking on issues to do with land, in-land water and Ocean resources for the continent’s development. He notes that it is not just the leadership deficit that Africa lacks but ideology and strategy. Museveni was on April 23, 2017 speaking […]