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World Bank Set for Uganda Dam Refinancing Talks Despite Criticism | Financial Times
Worker rights violations and environmental concerns not addressed, say critics This article originally appeared in the Financial Times. The World...
10 Questions for Congolese Women's Rights Activist Blandine Bonianga
Blandine Bonianga, FESO We have written before about the strength of the women of Inga. These women have seen two...
World Bank Reneges on Its Promise to Protect Key Biodiversity Site on Uganda’s White Nile
Previously protected stretch of the White Nile that will be submerged by Isimba Dam. Eli Reichman Last month, after a...
World Bank Refinancing of Uganda's Bujagali Hydropower Scheme Under the Spotlight | Devex
This article originally appeared in Devex. The Bujagali Falls in Uganda. Photo by Michell Zappa CC BY-SA LONDON — The...
Congo Powers Tech Revolution While Mired in Energy Poverty
I traveled across Katanga in southeastern DRC, and all I found were transmission lines and a string of broken promises....
New ANC Leadership Provides an Opportunity to Revisit Plans for the Troubled Inga 3 Dam
New ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa with Jacob Zuma. Associated Press During its National Elective Conference in December 2017, the African...
10 Things You Should Know About Africa’s Largest Dam
Men at work on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Photo by Jacey Fortin (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)],...
River Defender Shot Dead in Kenya
Police remove the body of a man who was shot dead in Bonyunyu, Nyamira County on January 9, 2017 as...
Lake Chad's Water Crisis | The New Yorker
This letter will appear in the New Yorker’s January 15, 2018 print edition. Lake Chad, which was once as large...
The Zambezi River, Drained Bone Dry
Where Mongu and the Zambezi floodplain meet – 25 kilometers from the river’s main channel. Photo Peace Corps. “Rather than...