Noticias sobre Sudan
Researchers launch novel web-based tool to ensure safe drinking water in refugee camps
A new web-based tool will help aid workers ensure that water is safe to drink in refugee and internally displaced persons (IDP) camps.
Burkina Faso designates Barrage de Samandéni
Burkina Faso has added Barrage de Samandéni to the List of Wetlands of International Importance.
“We need to keep communicating to highlight the water crisis and show what needs to be done”
Set up in 2005, Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) helps transform cities to benefit the millions of people who lack access to water and sanitation.
Multi-million-dollar project to target drought resilience in the Horn of Africa
Coordinated by GWP Eastern Africa and implemented by the Sahara and Sahel Observatory, $13, 079,540 from the Adaptation Fund will go towards strengthening smallholder farmers’ and pastoralists’ resilience to the adverse effects of drought in the IGAD region.
UNHCR wins €1 million euro prize for novel water tech in refugee camps
Affordable high-tech system allowing real-time monitoring of water provision and use in refugee settlements claims prestigious European Commission innovation prize.
‘Be prepared’: With water scarcer, Egypt pushes farmers to use much less
By Menna A. Farouk. With Nile water insufficient and now in question, the government is mandating a switch to water-saving drip and sprinkler irrigation.
More than 1 million people affected by floods in East Africa
Flooding in East Africa has already affected more than one million people, another blow that together with desert locust plagues and the coronavirus pandemic is threatening the food supply in the region, reports Phys.org.
Filling Africa’s largest dam risks political tension if engineering realities are ignored
A hydro dam currently under construction in Ethiopa is set to be the largest hydropower plant in Africa, but could be heading towards controversy for international agreements on water sharing.
Closing the gap in women’s rights and opportunities in Humanitarian WASH in South Sudan
Significant barriers including entrenched gendered divisions in labour, high risks of gender-based violence and working environments not considerate of women’s needs or valuing their contributions, are hampering women’s participation in water, sanitation and hygiene services as well as the wider humanitarian sector in South Sudan, research conducted by IOM and RedR UK has revealed.
Record floods threaten pyramid sites in Sudan
The floods, that have left at least 102 people dead, threaten two of the country's most important archaeological areas.
Sudan, Green Climate Fund & UNDP sign grant to support 3.7m people with climate-resilient water
The Green Climate Fund approved US$25.6 million in new funding for an innovative climate resilience project in Sudan, designed to promote agriculture, health, and food and water security.
Community resilience, Africa’s hope
Epidemics and pandemics have marked African history.
UN report highlights increasing signs and impacts of climate change in atmosphere, land and oceans
The tell-tale physical signs of climate change such as increasing land and ocean heat, accelerating sea level rise and melting ice are highlighted in a new report compiled by the World Meteorological Organization and an extensive network of partners.
Dry weather increases by two the list of countries in need of external food assistance
FAO report highlights risks posed by locusts in Africa amid stronger output trends in the Near East and Asia.
UK supercomputer to combat Africa’s worst locust outbreak in decades
A supercomputer funded by UK aid is helping countries in East Africa to tackle devastating locust outbreaks by tracking the insects’ movements around the continent.
Last year’s floods in South Sudan worsens food security
Food security worsened significantly in areas hit by last year’s floods.
At war, and with no water
Main photograph: Displaced persons camp outside Herat © Carlos Garriga
IHE Delft granted new funding for SIDS and MENA capacity development programmes
Under the umbrella of DUPC2, the partnership and capacity development programme run by IHE Delft, the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS) has awarded funding for two regional projects to strengthen capacity in the water sector to meet the water-related SDGs.
ADB approves $21.783 million grant for roll out of solar-powered irrigation in Sudan
The African Development Bank’s Board of Directors has approved a grant to the government of Sudan to accelerate the adoption of solar-powered irrigation pumps in the country’s West Kordofan and North Kordofan states.
Surge in global methane emissions traced back to South Sudan wetland
Methane emissions from a vast swamp in East Africa played a key role in a recent rise in levels of the gas in the atmosphere, a study suggests.