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A small bridge across the River Kisian. (photo: The Niles / Curity Ogada)
A small bridge across the River Kisian. (photo: The Niles / Curity Ogada)
A small bridge across the River Kisian. (photo: The Niles / Curity Ogada)

The plight of Kenya’s River Kisian

Curity Ogada and Alis Okonji
Once a sufficient lifeline for people and animals, increased human activity has taken its toll on Kenya’s River Kisian.
6.09.2022
Society
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The Nile Basin Tangram

Leila Bendra and Dominik Lehnert
Explore the Nile Basin Tangram and test your knowledge and imagination by recreating each riparian country’s national animal.
29.08.2022
Society

Nile narratives without borders

Davis Mugume and Mohamed Wadie
In the transboundary Nile Basin, riparian countries are often divided by misunderstanding, suspicions and conflict over water use. Can media help ease these tensions?
26.08.2022
Society

Minziro: Tanzania’s disappearing paradise

Sylivester Domasa
As Tanzania’s vital forest cover and wetlands shrink, what can be done to safeguard them for future generations?
24.08.2022
Society
United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) peacekeepers during a long-distance patrol to Kajo-Keji, Central Equatoria, Oct. 17, 2020, following heavy floods and reports of conflict. (photo: UN Photo / Isaac Billy) United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) peacekeepers during a long-distance patrol to Kajo-Keji, Central Equatoria, Oct. 17, 2020, following heavy floods and reports of conflict. (photo: UN Photo / Isaac Billy) United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) peacekeepers during a long-distance patrol to Kajo-Keji, Central Equatoria, Oct. 17, 2020, following heavy floods and reports of conflict. (photo: UN Photo / Isaac Billy)

Unresolved border dispute haunts local communities

Waakhe Simon and Scovin Iceta
Trauma, pain and misery: Decades of disputes along the border between South Sudan and Uganda have overshadowed the lives of people from both countries.
23.08.2022
Society
The Malaba River. (photo: The Niles / Pius Sawa )
The Angololo Project: Set to transform lives in Uganda and Kenya
19.08.2022  |  Society
Homesteads in the South Sudan-Ethiopia border region. (photo: The Niles / Winnie Cirino)
The many conflicts within the Ethiopia-South Sudan transboundary conflict
16.08.2022  |  Society
A fisher on Lake Tana, photographed during a journalist conference in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, August 2018. (photo: The Niles / Dominik Lehnert)
Comment
What unites Nile countries is more than what divides them
15.08.2022  |  Society
Lega, Three-Headed Figure (Sakimatwemtwe), 19th century. Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1922, Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 22.486. Creative Commons-BY (photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Editorial
This is Sakimatwematwe
15.08.2022  |  Society
(photo: MiCT The Niles)
The Niles #18
The cross-border conflict and collaboration issue
15.08.2022  |  Society
Dr. Kevin Wheeler. (photo: Oxford Martin School)
Q&A / Negotiations over rivers
Working with a friend rather than an adversary
10.06.2022  |  Society
A lappet-faced vulture in Kenya’s Maasai Mara. (Photo: Flickr / Regina Hart) (photo: Flickr / Regina Hart)
Kenya’s vultures are disappearing
8.06.2022  |  Society
The Nile Basin is particularly vulnerable and sensitive to the impacts of global warming. Its populations, e.g. people in Ethiopia, face high exposure to natural disasters, especially floods and droughts. (photo: Flickr / Bob McCaffrey)
Towards a green digital revolution
7.06.2022  |  Society
Wetlands across the Nile Basin are threatened by pollution, siltation, conversions into agricultural land, settlement, infrastructural development, climate change and deforestation. (photo: Flickr / John & Mel Kots)
re‹think the way we use land
Wetlands: A vital tool to mitigate climate change
7.03.2022  |  Society
A cattle farmer herding his animals. (photo: The Niles / Pius Sawa)
re‹think the way we eat
How to unlock opportunities and lower emissions
25.02.2022  |  Society
Erosion at the Mpanga River. (photo: The Niles / Henry Lutaaya)
re‹think the way we live & work
Water hostilities
23.02.2022  |  Society
Florence Nzambuli at her home in Mutomo, Kenya. (photo: The Niles / Pius Sawa)
re‹think the way we live & work
Climate change: ‘To whom does it belong to’?
18.02.2022  |  Society
The Flipflopi is the world’s very first 100 percent recycled plastic dhow (sailing boat), covered in 30,000 multicoloured flip flops. (photo: Redningsselskapet / Sofi Lundin)
re‹think the way we use resources
Lake Victoria: Plastic on the water we drink
17.02.2022  |  Society
The Association for the Protection of the Environment (APE) teaches women how to recycle different materials. (photo: The Niles / Asmaa Gamal)
re‹think the way we use resources
Recycling began in our mothers’ kitchens
16.02.2022  |  Society
The Niles #17
The re<think issue
11.02.2022  |  Society
Arabuko Sokoke is a board game commonly played in Kenya’s coastal region. (photo: The Niles / Anthony Ochieng)
Editorial
The board is bigger than we think
11.02.2022  |  Society
Sailing away on the Nile in Cairo. (photo: The Niles / Asmaa Gamal)
The Niles 16
Before you sail away
19.10.2021  |  Society
The Egyptian photographer and filmmaker Asmaa Gamal during a The Niles editorial conference. (photo: The Niles / Bullen Chol)
Winner Photo | NMA 2021
A few words with Asmaa Gamal
19.10.2021  |  Society
Production team member Yosra Mostafa in Entebbe, Uganda. (photo: The Niles / Dominik Lehnert)
Winners TV | NMA 2021
A few words with Sadiki Businge and Mugume Davis
19.10.2021  |  Society
Yves Rugira hosting a show at Radio Salus. (photo: Personal photo / Yves Rugira)
Winner Radio | NMA 2021
A few words with Yves Rugira
19.10.2021  |  Society
Journalists covering the Nile Day celebrations in Khartoum, February 22, 2020. (photo: The Niles / Dominik Lehnert)
The Nile Media Awards 2021
Are you more of a number or a word person?
19.10.2021  |  Society
Rehab Abd Almohsen during the Nile Media Awards ceremony in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (photo: NBI / Elizabeth Agiro)
Winner Digital | NMA 2021
A few words with Rehab Abd Almohsen
7.10.2021  |  Society
Ronald Musoke (centre) receiving his award in Entebbe, Uganda. (photo: The Niles / Henry Lutaaya)
Winner Print | NMA 2021
A few words with Ronald Musoke
5.10.2021  |  Society
Journalist covering the Nile Day celebrations in Khartoum, Sudan, on February 22, 2020. (photo: The Niles / Dominik Lehnert)
Editorial
Nile Media Awards champion professional, impactful reporting on Nile Basin issues
29.09.2021  |  Society
A sailor in Egypt’s capital Cairo. (photo: The Niles / Asmaa Gamal)
The Niles #16
The Nile Media Awards Issue
28.09.2021  |  Society
The El Qanater El Khayreya Dam in Egypt. (photo: The Niles | Asmaa Gamal)
Photostory
‘The Dams of Welfare’
30.03.2021  |  Society
A fisherman at work in Sennar. (photo: The Niles | Dominik Lehnert)
Interview
“I don’t think the dam has a big effect”
26.03.2021  |  Society
The way that leads to Karay, February 21, 2013. The village Karay had to make way for the Upper Atbara Dam Complex in Sudan. (photo: Flickr | Marthad Salah El-Din)
Investigation
The White Dam: a tale of big ambitions and big problems
22.03.2021  |  Society
Existing and planned Eastern Nile Basin dams featured in The Niles, Issue 15. (photo: The Niles | Gunnar Bauer)
Map
The Niles 15: Eastern Nile Basin dams
16.03.2021  |  Society
The Sennar Dam in Sudan, February 20, 2020. (photo: The Niles | Dominik Lehnert)
Risks, actions & benefits
Do dams cause more problems than they solve?
16.03.2021  |  Society
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