Transboundary waters

Dec 3, 2024

Start date

Feb 4, 2025 - 16:19

End date

Feb 6, 2025 - 16:19

Annual Meeting - 2025: Lusaka, ZambiaJoin this meeting of the best minds in the world working together for healthy African Great Lakes. Collaboration is paramount. With our six advisory groups and other global experts, we activate collective knowledge, passion, and resources to so ...

La crue du fleuve Sénégal provoque le déplacement de milliers de personnes dans l’est du pays

Patricia Marcos

Nov 29, 2024

Les inondations qui ont frappé l'est du Sénégal ont causé des dégâts considérables, avec plus de 56,000 personnes déplacées et des milliers d'hectares de terres cultivées ravagées. Les villages de la région de Bakel ont été particulièrement touchés, avec des maisons effondrées, des éco ...

Rising lake levels in central East Africa are driven by increasing rainfall and land-use intensification

Livia Serrao

Nov 18, 2024

On the 8th of October 2024, a paper on rising water levels in East Africa and its potential drivers of change was published in the Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies.

ACEWATER III, RCoEs-WaterComponent: Validation Workshop & Kick-off Meeting

Nov 7, 2024

Start date

Apr 15, 2024 - 07:00

End date

Apr 19, 2024 - 13:30

ACEWATER III Water component of scientific and technological support for Regional Centres of ...

Droughts followed by floods increase the incidence of malaria in the Lake Victoria area

Patricia Marcos

Oct 1, 2024

Water not only rules everyday life in Bunyala (located on the shorelines of Lake Victoria, Busia County, Kenya), but also kills. The village experiences recurrent floods that wipe out houses and people, while the lake increasingly claims new lands according to its inhabitants. And thes ...

Introduction to the JRC WEFE NEXUS Approach: A Brief Presentation at ENABEL

Sep 27, 2024

The WEFE Nexus is an approach that integrates management and governance across the multiple sectors of food, energy, water, and ecosystems. The Nexus corroborates the need to not view water, energy, food.

Zimbabwe to cull 200 elephants to feed citizens left hungry by drought

Sep 19, 2024

Zimbabwe has authorized a mass slaughter of elephants to feed citizens left hungry by its worst drought in decades.With nearly half of the country’s population facing the risk of acute hunger, “we are targeting to cull 200 elephants,” Tinashe Farawo, a spokesperson for the Zimbabw ...

Priorities and Challenges in Transboundary Basins in Africa - Scientific Support

Aug 1, 2024

ClimSA: Training Workshop for the SADC Region on the WEFE NEXUS, Climate Variability, and Environmental Monitoring

Jun 10, 2024

Start date

Jun 10, 2024 - 07:00

End date

Jun 14, 2024 - 10:30

BACKGROUNDThe Intra-ACP Climate Services and related Application (ClimSA) Programme takes place within the framework of an existing Financing Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific group of States Secretariat (ACP Secretariat) and the European Union (EU). The goal of the ...

Video: LATAWAMA Project - Lake Tanganyika Water Management

Feb 8, 2024

Le projet régional LATAWAMA (Lake Tanganyika Water Management), financé par l’Union européenne et mis en œuvre par Enabel (Agence de Developpement Belge) en étroite collaboration avec l’Autorité du Lac Tanganyika, a pris fin le 31 janvier 2024.

e-NEXUS Western Africa - Seminaire Technique Dakar (Senegal)

May 7, 2023

Start date

Jul 12, 2023 - 07:00

End date

Jul 13, 2023 - 15:00

PROJET e-NEXUS Western AfricaSEMINAIRE TECHNIQUE12 – 13 Juillet 2023 ContexteLe projet e-NEXUS Western Africa a pour objectif de renforcer les capacités scientifiques et techniques au bénéfice des institutions de l’Afrique de l’Ouest et de ses partenaires pour une meil ...

EMS Tool

Jan 3, 2023

EMS Tool: Environmental Monitoring SystemManagement, analysis and visualization of huge and complex datasets is a challenge.

WEFE SENEGAL: ATELIER TECHNIQUE - Exploitation des eaux souterraines

Feb 1, 2022

Start date

Feb 10, 2022 - 09:30

End date

Feb 11, 2022 - 12:30

Projet WEFE-SENEGAL Atelier technique Exploitation des eaux souterraines dans le bassin du fleuve Senegal: Implantation, techniques et entretien des forages d’eau Mode on-line 10 Février 9h30-12h30 et 11 Février 2022 9h30-12h30 (Dakar Time) Lien d'accès à ...

Annex 29-30 (SC): Characterization of Current Agriculture Activities, Future Potential Irrigation Developments and Food Security to Face Climate Variability in the Zambezi River Basin by A Senzanje and TL Dirwai (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

Emanuele Cordano

Apr 13, 2021

The transboundary Zambezi River Basin (ZRB), the fourth largest in Africa, faces many challenges from the perspective of the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem (WEFE) nexus, including, among many others,

In the future there will be more rain, but less water, in the Nile Basin

Jan 14, 2020

The Nile – the world’s longest river – runs through

Crops along the Senegal River - Sentinel-2 Timelapse

Iban Ameztoy

May 8, 2018

False color composite made by Sentinel 2A and 2B satellites imagery (Bands 8-4-3)

Projet Mékrou, un projet de développement pour l'intégration et la coopération transfrontalière

Andrea Iervolino

Mar 16, 2018

Ce film capitalise les principaux résultats issus de la mise en oeuvre du projet "Eau pour la croissance et la lutte contre la pauvreté dans le bassin transfrontalier de la Mékrou" (Bénin-Burkina Faso et Niger) financé par la Commission de l'Union Européenne et mis en oeuvre par GWP-AO ...

Iuellemeden aquifer system - Mali, Niger, Nigeria. Volume III: Hydrogeological model

EzioCrestaz

Apr 26, 2017

Document published in 2011 by OSS (Sahel and Sahara Observatory), focused on the design and implementation of a hydrogeological model of the Iullemeden Aquifer System.

COMPTE RENDU: Atelier scientifique Niamey -15-17 Fevrier 2017

Celine Dondeynaz

Apr 4, 2017

Resumé: Les résultats des discussions durant l’atelier scientifique peuvent être résumés de manière suivante :

Call for Expression of Interest for the AU/NEPAD Central and Eastern African Network of Water Centres of Excellence (CEANWATCE).

Feb 9, 2017

Launched by NEPAD on 1st Februray, the Call for Expression of Interest for Universities and Research Institutions in Water Sciences to constitute and become members of the AU/NEPAD Central and Eastern African Network of Water Centres of Excellence (AU/NEPAD CEANWATCE), is expected to r ...

Atelier Scientifique MEKROU -15-17 FEVRIER 2017

Celine Dondeynaz

Jan 16, 2017

Start date

Feb 15, 2017 - 08:30

End date

Feb 17, 2017 - 17:30

Atelier scientifique MEKROU 15-17 Février 2017 NIAMEY, NIGER Les partenaires scientifiques du Project Mékrou ainsi que les services techniques hydrologiques et météorologiques du Bénin, Burkina Faso et Niger, se réuniront à Niamey (NIGER) afin de travailler ens ...

Presentations of Accra Scientific Workshop 2016

Jan 10, 2017

Agenda of Accra Scientific Workshop 2016

Jan 10, 2017

Minutes of Accra Scientific Workshop 2016

Jan 10, 2017

KICK-OFF meeting: African Centres of Excellence in Water Science PROJECT- PHASE II.

Apr 18, 2016

Start date

May 23, 2015 - 16:00

End date

May 26, 2016 - 20:00

Version française disponible ci-après Dear Centres of Excellence, Representatives of regional institutions and Partners, We hope this email find you all in good health. From 23 to 27 May 2016, the second phase of the European Commission (EC) support for the NEPAD Net ...

Monitoring Water and Sanitation in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – An introduction

Apr 1, 2016

Water and sanitation, as absolute necessities for people, planet and prosperity, are at the very core of sustainable development.

Projet MEKROU - Seminaire 5-7 Novembre 2014: Donnees, Modeles et Systemes

Feb 15, 2016

L’eau au service de la croissance et de la lutte contre la pauvreté dans le bassin transfrontalier de la Mékrou (Burkina Faso, Bénin et Niger) – Réunion sur les données et la mise en place d’un système d’information.

Rapport d'étude sur le "Diagnostic institutionnel participatif avec consultation de tous les acteurs principaux couplé avec inventaire des projets exécutés ou en cours d’exécution dans la zone du Projet Mékrou et atelier de restitution"