Africa’s Water Crisis Exposes Broken Global Financial Order.
According to AFRODAD, Africa currently invests between $10 billion and $19 billion annually in water infrastructure, while at least $30 bil... Read More
Are African ‘water wars’ on the horizon as AU puts the issue on its agenda?
Experts weigh in on challenges, from climate change and water scarcity to upstream-downstream conflict and industry abuse.
F... Read More
Severe drought pushes East Africa towards a humanitarian emergency.
Worsening drought in East Africa is putting millions of lives and livelihoods at risk, with Somalia, southeastern Ethiopia and easte... Read More
UN sounds alarm on Africa’s 300 million without clean water.
Around 20% of Africa’s population—over 300 million people—still lack access to clean and safe drinking water, the UN Deputy Secretary-Gener... Read More
From Blue Community Ambassador Isadora Cruxên:
Great essay by Valerio Bini and Alessio Iocchi on the failures of the “Great Green Wall” in Africa, a phantom mega-development project:
The Great ... Read More
From the global Blue Community World Council of Churches WCC:
Church leaders warn of worsening drought situation in eastern Africa, as agencies prepare response.
Church leaders in northern Kenya ar... Read More
OWORAC, UN expert, other campaigners reject World Bank/IMF water privatisation push in Africa
The Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition (OWORAC), a pan-African movement against the commodification of w... Read More
From InfoNile, the flagship project of the Blue Community Water Journalists Africa:
Water sampling investigation by InfoNile in partnership with scientists in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania unveils incre... Read More
Inside the Cross-Border Network Exposing the Environmental Crisis Facing Africa’s Longest River.
In 2017, inside a modest media nonprofit office in Kampala, Uganda, a collaboration between Ugandan jou... Read More
