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Clean water for rural Ethiopia
After Lori Pappas first arrived in the Omo River Valley in southwestern Ethiopia three years ago, the first thing she did was conduct a...
Ghana: Pure Home Water for the north
According to the World Health Organization, diseases associated with unsafe water claim the lives of about 2 million people worldwide every year, most of...
Ethiopia led Nile treaty gains ground as Burundi joins
Ethiopian authorities have expressed their contentment over Burundi’s decision to sign a new Nile water equitable sharing treaty that will end Egypt's historical control...
Cameroon suffers huge shortages in essential commodities
After gas and fish, sugar seems to have disappeared from Cameroonian shelves. The depletion of stocks and as well as the absence of essential...
Egypt’s conundrum over food security and the Nile’s water
Russia's decision this year to halt wheat exports has dealt Egypt a severe blow and brought many questions to the fore. Egypt’s population explosion...
Water partnership initiative begins in Ethiopia, India, Brazil and Mali
The Columbia Water Center (CWC), based at Columbia University’s Earth Institute in New York, is focused on sustainable development projects throughout the world, including...
Ugandan women appeal to Museveni over sex and boreholes
Women in the northern Ugandan district of Yumbe, 400 kms north west of the capital Kampala, have complained that their inability to get...
Southern Sudan and World Bank sign $30M water deal
Southern Sudan has received 30 million US dollars from the World Bank to enable the eastern African country provide safe clean water to its...
Southern Sudan: Ambitious water project to cover all ten states
All the ten states in southern Sudan lack clean water, but that is about to change as the southern Sudan government assures residents that...
Ethiopia-Egypt accords, a danger to Nile Basin negotiations?
Ethiopia and Egypt have moved a significant step, this week, towards leveling their bumpy relations. The two countries have agreed to strengthen their economic...
Nile Basin: Ethiopia disappointed over Egypt and Sudan’s unfair advantage
Discrepancies among Nile Basin countries continue unabated as water ministers of the Nile Basin countries delayed a water sharing pact on Tuesday July 28,...
Water crisis in Algeria may get worse
A report on the availability of potable water in Africa has listed Algeria among 17 African countries affected by water shortage.
According to the report,...