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Citing Lack of Independence, Experts Pull Out of Ethiopia’s GERD
GERD’s construction site. Courtesy of en.quantra.de One of the consultancy firms conducting studies on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)...
Does the World Bank's "Success Story" on Dams Still Hold Water?
The World Bank will hold its Annual Meetings next week in Lima, in the face of stiff competition from new...
More Than One Million Malaria Cases Each Year Due to African Dams, Study Finds
African reservoirs create perfect breeding grounds for malaria-carrying mosquitoes. Scienstists Against Malaria I didn’t feel well during my visit to...
Ethiopia's Power Dreams | BBC World Service
Three generations of women looking out over the Omo River. Alison M. Jones for www.nowater-nolife.org Two major dams are coming...
Mirrors: A Solution to Africa's Energy Crisis?
Helio 100. Courtesy of Helio100 A university in South Africa recently announced that it had devised a way to produce...
20 Things You Didn’t Know About the Nile
The Nile River in Sudan. International Rivers 1. The Nile is Africa’s longest river, covering 4,101 miles – roughly the...
Obama Urged to Talk On Gibe 3 Dam | The East African
A dam in Ethiopia. Terri Hathaway This article was originally published in The East African. Environmental activists in Kenya and...
Last Rites for the Jade Sea? | National Geographic
Originally published in National Geographic. Tribesmen in Lake Turkana. Randy Olson On a hot spring morning, Galte Nyemeto stood by...
A Model for Africa? South Africa’s Renewable Energy Policy
Renewable energy policy. Courtesy of greenenergyfront. South Africa has the largest carbon footprint in Africa: It’s responsible for 40% of...
Update on the Fight to Save Kenya’s Lake Turkana
Fishing in Lake Turkana. International Rivers Earlier this month, we asked our supporters to take action to protect Kenya’s Lake...