What is driving Jipe Tilapia fish in Lake Jipe into near extinction?
By Janet Murikira In 2015 Nile Tilapine fingerlings were introduced on the Kenyan side of
March 29, 2021
State of Media Coverage Of The Nile: More Needs To Be Done
That the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project has polarized opinion and continues to do so, has never been in doubt. Neither is the fact that this dam project has inspired hot, nationalistic passions on either side of the argument.
March 25, 2021
Pangolins in the Dock
The pangolin is the world’s most trafficked mammal. No one truly knows its conservation status in Kenya. When COVID-19 broke out in early 2020, some medical researchers linked coronavirus to horseshoe bats. Other researchers suspected the malayan or javan pangolin to be the intermediate host of coronavirus before it jumped to human beings. But is the pangolin really guilty as charged?
March 8, 2021
Sudan, After the Flood (In Photos)
Photographer Roger Anis spends two weeks traveling to villages in Sudan that were devastated by the extreme floods of 2020.
March 6, 2021
‘Sugypia’ by Ethiopia’s Eyayu Genet: Art for the Nile
Ethiopian artist Eyayu Genet uses his art and paintings to showcase transboundary issues and importance of the Nile.
March 5, 2021
Khartoum farmers turn to effective microorganisms technology, a green approach to soil inoculation, to adapt to climate change
Effective Microorganisms (EM) technology is a Japanese innovation being used in Sudan to improve soil quality, crop growth, and crop yields.
March 2, 2021
Green charcoal to save forests in Burundi
Delphin Kaze, 23, a young man from Gitega, Burundi’s second largest city, located in the Nile basin, has found an alternative to preserve the tree. He makes ecological charcoal from maize stalks.
February 26, 2021
Tanzania’s famous Chimpanzee in danger of extinction
Chimpanzees are facing the threat of extinction due to an increase in deaths and other threats including habitat destruction (natural forests) depletion of reserves, food shortages as well as disease.
February 17, 2021
Simple solutions for stubborn problems: Communities close to Kenya’s Tsavo National Park plant trees to save wildlife
Several farmers in Kenya are crying foul of wild animals destroying their food and crops. Communities around the Tsavo park have turned to tree planting as an innovation to end human-wildlife conflicts
February 16, 2021
Kenyan Conservancies Unable to Pay Leased Land amid COVID-19 Linked Drop in Tourism Revenue
So far Kenya has lost 80 per cent in revenues from tourism and 90 per cent from international arrivals since March this year
February 15, 2021
Uganda’s Musambwa Island, the World’s Largest Breeding Colony for Grey-headed Gulls, Devastated by Floods amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Musambwa Island, the World’s Largest Breeding Colony for Grey-headed Gulls Devastated by Floods amid Coronavirus Pandemic.
February 9, 2021
Tanzania’s Manyara Lake is drying up. Here’s why
Over the last 20 years, Lake Manyara has shrunk by over 90%.
February 5, 2021