Floods and Droughts: How Climate Change is Impacting Africa
When one enters the northern Kenyan village of Kalotum, the overwhelming impression is one of things missing. There are a dozen conical thatched huts and a clutch of spindly thorn trees. But there are no crops, animals or water. A quick look around reveals no men, either. "They all left," says villager Mary Atabo. She says just three of her family's 100 goats have survived a decade-long drought. ... read more >>
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Amref explains why it needs your help to increase safe water coverage in Katine
Thanks to your generosity, over the last two years in Katine, the African Medical Research Foundation (Amref) has improved the community's access to safe water and promoted basic sanitation.
Amref has dug eight boreholes, rehabilitated eight more, dug shallow wells, fitted with pumps, installed PVC water tanks i
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El Niño Rains Begin in East Africa
Meteorologists predict these rains will continue in some areas until January, hitting regions in Kenya and southern and central Somalia most severely. This El Niño cycle is expected to be mild or moderate compared to the downpours of 1997 and 1998, which caused massive flooding and damage in East Africa. ... read more >>
Incentive compatibility and conflict resolution in international river basins: A case study of the Nile Basin
Nation-states rarely go to war over water, but it is equally rare that water conflicts in an international river basin are resolved through cooperation among the riparian countries that use the shared resources. Gains from cooperation will mean little to individual riparians unless the required cooperative behaviors are incentive compatible. Cooperative game theory offers useful insights for asse ... read more >>
Scientists warn adaptation to climate change and variability on water resources in Africa needs a human focus
Mrs Sherry Ayittey, Honourable Minster for Environment, Science and Technology, Government of Ghana, expressed that for Africa, climate change and water availability, water quality, limitation of water hazards and wetlands preservation are not, as the West sees it, long-term scientific or technical issues, but a pressing basic human right that is closely linked with poverty alleviation and human ... read more >>
Lake Chad facing humanitarian disaster / Shrinking water resources are threatening people and livelihoods / FAO calls for urgent interventions
he humanitarian disaster looming at the shrinking Lake Chad in central Africa should be urgently addressed, FAO said today.
The lake, which is surrounded by Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, was once one of the world’s largest water bodies. Due to climatic variability, climate change and population pressure over recent decades, the lake has shrunk by 90 percent, from 25 000 square kilometers
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Nile Basin states seek ‘collective’ negotiations
Peaceful and collective negotiations must be encouraged in the quest for a comprehensive legal framework that can allow all the 10 states to equitably utilise the River Nile basin.
According to Uganda’s deputy head of mission Idule Amoko, the 1929 treaty between Egypt and United Kingdom that gave the North African country a monopoly over the use of Nile water resources does not rise to the cha
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