On Wednesday, the river reached 6.20 meters (20.34 feet)above sea level, just shy of the 1961 record of 6.26 meters, he told Reuters, adding that the flooding had followed exceptionally high rains ...

Biologist Mike Ross, balanced in a canoe beneath a star-filled sky in central Zambia, slaps the water with a net attached to ...

Three cattle on the left, 20 elephants on the right,” shouts the expedition leader from the bow seat of the first of five canoes snaking along a stretch of the Kafue River in central Zambia. The ...

As Africa’s largest river basin, it crosses the borders of multiple countries and is one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks, absorbing carbon from the atmosphere and locking it away.

Africa: Nile River Basin Commission - Regional Strife Could Make a Difficult Task Impossible. 17 October 2024. Institute for Security Studies (Tshwane/Pretoria) analysis By Moses Chrispus Okello.

The federal government has re-affirmed its unwavering commitment to support the River Basin Development Authorities (RBDAs) ...

Africa has 66 transboundary river basins. These include the Nile basin, and the Juba–Shebelle and Lake Turkana basins in the Horn of Africa. Conflict risk can rise as populations grow, ...

The treaty is being reviewed through the Joint Water Commission between South Africa and eSwatini to broaden the scope of work of the Komati Basin Water Authority (KOBWA) and enable it to ...

Costa is also building on his experience and knowledge from traversing the Okavango Basin, to understand other African river systems, and their implications for the continent’s future food and ...

Kush is spreading across the Mano River Basin in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, ensnaring the youth and straining social services. A united front by these three governments is needed to prevent ...

However, raised geopolitical tensions in the Horn of Africa region will make this difficult to accomplish. The Agreement on the Nile River Basin Cooperative Framework ( CFA ) came into force on 13 ...