At the furniture market in the Jabe district, in the urban commune of Mukaza, within the town hall of Bujumbura, the economic capital, planks of wood can be seen seemingly abandoned. At first glance, they appear old, discarded, and of no economic value. However, the reality is quite the opposite: this is high-value wood smuggled […]

From DRC to South Sudan, timber takes many routes which have been changing for years

In September, Ethiopia completed the fourth and final filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, now the largest hydroelectric power plant in Africa. How is this mega project expected to impact its neighbor Sudan?

Approximately 78 percent of all households in South Sudan earn their livelihoods from farming, fishing, pastoralism or a mix of the three

Uganda's first oil has left indigenous communities scrambling and environmental conservation priorities on the back burner. This documentary reveals what is at stake in the Albertine Region.

A group of young people, majority women in Kapchorwa district Sebei sub-region, Eastern Uganda, have started a new project which is using solar energy to transform human and livestock waste into efficient cooking fuel.

Hundreds of people are grappling with acute scarcity of clean and safe water in Bunambutye landslides resettlement villages, amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic fight. Those affected the most include 140 households in Phase II who were relocated from disaster prone Bududa to Bunambutye settlement in Bulambuli district.  The Ugandan government like others across the world […]

Farmers in Morogoro, Tanzania are feeling the effects of climate change. But the government has rolled out a plan to establish small scale irrigation systems to boost crop production for small-scale farmers in rural areas of the country.

More than 2.5 million hectares of land in South Sudan have been acquired mainly by international investors since 2006 This story was produced in partnership with InfoNile and Code for Africa with support from the  Pulitzer Center. STORY UPDATE, April 9 2021: Green Horizon Chief Executive Officer, Gen Israel Ziv was sanctioned by the US government in […]

Up to 10.3 million hectares of land has been acquired by investors from individuals, communities and governments in the 11 Nile basin countries since 2000. That is according to Land Matrix, a global and independent land monitoring initiative. Apart from private investors, Land Matrix data shows that several countries outside of Africa such as Austria, […]

South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, has been grabbing international news headlines, not for any good reasons but for odd ones including civil wars, tribal conflicts and land grabs. Many tribal conflicts stem from fights over the ever shrinking land and water resources in a less than a decade-old country.  In a place with high […]

This story was produced in partnership with InfoNile and Code for Africa with support from the Pulitzer Center. Abreham Bekele, 58, a resident of Meshenti village, close to Bahir Dar city, in Ethiopia’s Amhara region became a destitute after the land he and his eleven family members derived livelihoods from was acquired by an investor […]