The Okavango River sustains over half a million people in Namibia and Botswana. The main livelihood activities in the basin are arable farming, livestock farming, fishing and tourism.

Every year, the Okavango River brings an infusion of crystal clear, life-giving water into an otherwise arid landscape. That water attracts and sustains over half a million tons of ecological ...

The Okavango River Basin is under siege by ReconAfrica, a Canadian oil and gas company that has been granted licenses for exploratory drilling in an area of Namibia and Botswana larger than some ...

The podcast takes listeners along the Okavango River, unpacking the intricacies behind the region's geopolitics. Spanning Angola, Namibia and Botswana and the basin is made up of the rivers that feed ...

The Permanent Okavango River Basin Water Commission ( www.OKACOM.org ) Council of Commissioners ( bit.ly/3B5c3mo ) representing the riparian states of Angola, Botswana, and Namibia recently ...

Civil society organizations and activists have expressed concern that the wastewater from ReconAfrica’s exploratory drilling risks leaking into the groundwater and ephemeral rivers upstream of the ...

The basin provides water for hundreds of thousands of people and includes a UNESCO World Heritage site and a Ramsar wetland of international importance. ReconAfrica has a 13,200-square-mile lease area ...