Of the 543 major rivers in the world—those that are longer than 500km and which flow in an uninterrupted way to the sea—156 (29%) are located in Africa. Dams disturb this by breaking up the ...

Africa is a beautiful continent, surrounded with deserts jungles, forest and rivers which is at the heart of this lively continent, providing life and shaping the lives, cultures, and histories of ...

African boundaries were shaped years later, rather than during the Berlin Conference. Rivers were used to map Africa because Europeans were particular about trade routes into the continent. Sixty-two ...

Nairobi — Almost all major river basins in Africa have become the epicentres for conflicts over the last 20 years, and agricultural yields on the continent could drop by up to 50 percent in the ...