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The Akanyaru River. (photo: The Niles / Mugume Davis Rwakaringi)
The Akanyaru River. (photo: The Niles / Mugume Davis Rwakaringi)
The Akanyaru River. (photo: The Niles / Mugume Davis Rwakaringi)

The Akanyaru Project: A boost to Burundi-Rwanda relations

Davis Mugume and Fabien Niyonizigiye
Locals eagerly await a new water project which promises to bring Burundians and Rwandans closer, improving local livelihoods and bilateral trade.
18.08.2022
Economy
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Lighting up Rwanda with help from Uganda

Fred W. Mwasa and Ronald Musoke
Plans to interconnect Rwandan and Ugandan electricity grids could revolutionise day-to-day lives across the region – but the last political and practical hurdles still need to be overcome.
16.08.2022
Economy

Small fish, enormous potential?

Pius Sawa
Could small fish found in many waters in Uganda contribute to improved food security?
22.07.2022
Economy

Better beans

Pius Sawa
Fast-cooking and precooked beans could improve food and income security and turn down the heat on East Africa’s dwindling forests, as a project involving farmers in Kenya and Uganda suggests.
14.06.2022
Economy
A drip irrigation line. (photo: Flickr / Joby Elliott) A drip irrigation line. (photo: Flickr / Joby Elliott) A drip irrigation line. (photo: Flickr / Joby Elliott)
re‹think the way we eat

Improving food security: One drip at a time

Sarah Natoolo
It is a daunting challenge to produce enough food for the growing Nile Basin population, and climate change makes farming even tougher.
25.02.2022
Economy
A worker on Mahmoud Yasin’s farm. (photo: The Niles / Elzahraa Jadallah)
re‹think the way we eat
Tuti Island farming: Survival of the wealthiest
24.02.2022  |  Economy
A fisherman retrieves his casted net at night. (photo: Anthony Ochieng / TonyWild)
re‹think the way we live & work
Rusinga Island’s climate-smart fishers
24.02.2022  |  Economy
Godi Swalleh Safi, Executive Director of Help Food Security and Livelihoods Africa (HF-Africa), moulding plastic waste into interlocking bricks. (photo: The Niles / Waakhe Simon Wudu)
re‹think the way we use resources
Dealing with the scourge of waste
18.02.2022  |  Economy
Wind turbines in Adama, Ethiopia. (photo: CIFOR / Ollivier Girard)
re‹think policies & investments
Green investments to battle climate change
14.02.2022  |  Economy
Dr. Michael Kizza, Deputy Executive Director, Nile Basin Initiative. (photo: The Niles / Henry Lutaaya)
re‹think policies & investments
Rethinking regional investments
11.02.2022  |  Economy
Farmers are ploughing their field on the slopes of Choke Mountain. (photo: The Niles | Dagim Terefe)
Review
Choke Mountain sediments stifle downstream reservoirs
29.03.2021  |  Economy
One of the two main Gezira Canals near the city of Al-Hasahisa. (photo: The Niles | Mohamed Hilali)
Sennar
A dam, a scheme – but water sufficiency remains a pipe dream
25.03.2021  |  Economy
The Sennar Dam in Sudan. (photo: The Niles | Leila Bendra-Lehnert)
Overview
Sudan’s dams
19.03.2021  |  Economy
South Sudan has vast potential to generate electricity from hydropower. (photo: The Niles | Bullen Chol)
Review
Can South Sudan relaunch its Fula Dam project?
18.03.2021  |  Economy
Michael Abebe briefs journalists at Sudan’s Sennar Dam, February 21, 2020. (photo: The Niles / Dominik Lehnert)
Interview
Why dams matter
22.02.2021  |  Economy
A woman collecting dried maize leaves for livestock feed on a khat field partially intercropped with maize in Wondo village, Ethiopia. (photo: The Niles | Tesfa-Alem Tekle)
Ingredients
Beware of easy money
27.12.2019  |  Economy
Dates sold in Cairo, Egypt. (photo: The Niles | Rehab Abd Almohsen)
Ingredients
Don’t throw away the date’s byproducts
23.12.2019  |  Economy
George Muhanuka Tindyebwa has never tased his own coffee. (photo: The Niles | Davis Mugume)
Ingredients
Reap what you sow!
20.12.2019  |  Economy
Kagina Ermogene, a specialised maize farmer in Rwanda. (photo: The Niles | Jean Paul Mbarushimana)
Basics
Don’t underestimate the effect climate change has on food production
19.12.2019  |  Economy
An Ethiopian farmer threshes his harvest, November 25, 2016. (photo: The Niles | Berihu Mekonene)
Basics
Educate farmers about post-harvest management to stop food loss
19.12.2019  |  Economy
A couple in Thiet, Tonj State, South Sudan, plough their field. (photo: The Niles | Ayuel Santino)
Basics
Invest more, modernise farming and open the borders to allow for food trade
15.12.2019  |  Economy
Oil industry facility in Sudan. (photo: InfoNile | Elzahraa Jadallah)
Pollution
The dark side of Sudan’s oil
23.04.2019  |  Economy
Chimpanzees in Kibale National Park. (photo: The Niles | Mugume Davis)
Resource depletion
No forest, no wildlife, no business
23.04.2019  |  Economy
Generators are the principal source of electricity in Juba. (photo: The Niles | Martha Agama)
Pollution
Sacrificing the environment for power
16.04.2019  |  Economy
A coffee shop in Egypt’s capital Cairo. (photo: The Niles | Yosra El-Zoghby)
Degradation drivers
The long route to a cup of coffee
26.03.2019  |  Economy
Participants attending the fourth VICMED Steering Committee Meeting in Cairo. (photo: The Niles | Elzahraa Jadallah)
An ambitious shipping route
25.10.2018  |  Economy
The Rusumo Falls Hydroelectric Project area, October 27, 2013. (photo: Nile Basin Initiative (NBI))
How to power booming industries
10.08.2018  |  Economy
Grania Rubomboras (left), Programme Officer at the Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Programme Coordination Unit (NELSAP CU). (photo: The Niles | Nik Lehnert)
The Niles Talk:
From one to a million connections, one connection at a time
10.08.2018  |  Economy
The Kinyaga Transmission Line Station in Rwanda on March 4, 2018. (photo: The Niles | Jean Paul Mbarushimana)
Importing energy and a higher quality of life
10.08.2018  |  Economy
Men at work near the Karuma Dam Project on March 26, 2016. (photo: Mawejje Geoffrey | wikimedia.org)
Connecting power across borders
10.08.2018  |  Economy
The Aswan High Dam, under construction, November 1964. (photo: Ted Swedenburg | flic.kr/p/odyoMY)
Interest and power in the Eastern Nile
10.08.2018  |  Economy
Loaded: lorries are often loaded above capacity to maximise profits. (photo: The Niles | Mugume Davis)
Business across borders
10.08.2018  |  Economy
The Nile Basin annual fresh fish production is estimated at 3 million tons. (photo: The Niles | Mugume Davis)
Fish in troubled waters
Lake Victoria’s once-abundant fish stocks in decline
4.07.2018  |  Economy
The Nile Basin annual fresh fish production is estimated at 3 million tons. (photo: The Niles | Mugume Davis)
Combating illegal fishing
Can fishing survive as a way of life along the River Nile?
7.03.2018  |  Economy
Transporting people and goods on the Nile is an important source of income for many entrepreneurs living along the river. (photo: The Niles | Mugume Davis)
Fast and convenient
Is the Nile still an important transport route?
5.03.2018  |  Economy
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