Search Results for: water scarcity Africa
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Development
Sharing A Stream With Cows: Nigerian Community Suffering Acute Water Scarcity
How best can one describe a disadvantaged community? Find your way to Bida town in Niger state. Tell a commercial…
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Features
What The World Can Learn From Africa’s ‘Cradle Of Water Reclamation’
As one of the driest countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Namibia is no stranger to water scarcity issues. Since 2012, the…
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Environment & Climate Change
Majority Of African Cities At Risk Of Devastating Climate Crisis
An estimated 70 per cent of African cities, including West Africa’s economic hub Lagos, are at high risk of climate…
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Development
‘A Tsunami Of Human Waste’ – Half Of South Africa’s Sewage Treatment Works Are Failing
When he was 13 years old, Rudy Hanse joined the guppy development programme offered by the Milnerton Canoe Club in…
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Features
Nigerian Rural Community Stuck In Water Crisis. A Nonprofit Takes A Photo, And It Tilts The Narrative
Kemi Gbereogun, 52, scowls as she stirs dough into Fufu, a staple made from cassava, over a fire. She is…
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Development
300,000 People Affected By Attacks On Water Resources In Burkina Faso
Nearly 300,000 people have been affected by targeted attacks on water points and water trucks, including the purposeful contamination of…
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Features
Tricycles Are Delivering Water Tanks To Doorsteps Amid Water Scarcity In North-central Nigeria
At about 8 a.m. every day, Danlami Ahmadu rides one of the tricycles bearing water tanks (popularly called blue trucks)…
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Photo Essay
Nigeria’s Water Crisis Endangers COVID-19 Fight
Following an intervention from the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), there was an opportunity to examine how limited…
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Armed Violence
Disappearing Migration Routes Fueling Farmer-Herder Violence in Northern Nigeria
Bello Ardo still remembers how they were sent away from Dapchi, a town in Yobe State, North East Nigeria. It…
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Displacement & Migration
Nigeria’s Race For Inclusive Education Leaves Millions of Nomadic Children Behind (II)
In addition to Nigeria’s northern region, many nomadic communities down south lack functional schools. School-age children idle around their huts…
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