By Talei Caucau Niger, West Africa, is not a place visited by many tourists, because there is not much to see, except for the northern part, most notably Agadez and the vast expanse of desert that lies beyond it, known as The Air. Agadez is an ancient and important market town located in the desert,… Read more »
The Last Master: Malam Mamane Barka
By Elsa Sichrovsky In the 1980s, a teenaged teacher would often entertain locals in the town of Tesker, Niger by playing the ngurumi, a traditional instrument with a calabash shell body and iguana skin head[1] that is often used by the Toubou people of northern Niger. The Toubou schoolteacher went on to become headmaster of a… Read more »
Causes of Child Marriage and the Bigger Picture
By Michelle Nelson von Euw A great deal of research has been done on child marriage in an effort to understand the causes, and effects, of this damaging practice. Child marriage refers to both formal and informal unions in which children under the age of 18 live with partners as if they are married. According… Read more »
My Journey as a Water Engineer
By Godfrey Oyuki I come from a village called Abur in Osukuru sub-county, Tororo district, Uganda. My grandparents, father and all fourteen of his children were born there. It is located on a hill and the ground water table is very difficult to reach. There is no natural spring, no river, no stream, and no… Read more »
Clean Water: An Essential Resource in the Fight against COVID-19
By Chidiebere Aguziendu With the coronavirus pandemic currently threatening communities around the world, researchers across the globe are actively pursuing an effective treatment regimen and a vaccine, which could be more than a year away. While we wait for a vaccine, there are a few things we can do to try to slow the spread… Read more »
Food of Niger and Nutritional Health
by Caroline Moss According to 2019 Global Hunger Index, a report produced by the Irish humanitarian organization Concern Worldwide and the German aid organization Welthungerhilfe, Niger is the 16th hungriest country in the world. The causes of hunger go beyond a lack of available food to include population growth, drought, political instability, conflict, and lack… Read more »
Million more trees in Niger – An Australian farmer project that is silently changing the world
by Raphaela Barros Prado Many nonprofit organizations in Niger were created to help communities with the issues they face everyday such as water scarcity, poverty, unemployment, violence, etc. One of the organizations started with the idea of improving. the environment by creating more green space in Niger’s desert landscape. Tony Rinaudo is an Australian farmer… Read more »
Two-Thirds of African Cities Face Extreme Climate Risk
By Satya Lakshmi V. Pasupuleti Based on the climate analysis report published by British risk consultancy firm Verisk Maplecroft in November 2018, two-thirds of African cities are at an extreme risk of drought and heat waves caused by the climate change. According to the report, two out of three cities on the African continent could… Read more »
Theresa Kachindamoto: Ending Child Marriage in Malawi
By Michelle Nelson von Euw Theresa Kachindamoto is the paramount chief, or Inkosi, of the Dezda District in the central region of Malawi, the 6th poorest country in the world. In this position, she has authority over 900,000 people and works as one of 300 tribal leaders of the country. Kachindamoto came to power after… Read more »
Struggling Against Shame and Pain: Obstetric Fistula in Niger
By Elsa Sichrovsky Giving birth to a baby is physically painful and psychologically stressful for any woman, but for women in Niger, childbirth can debilitating as it frequently results in a condition that plagues them with chronic incontinence for the rest of their lives: obstetric fistula. Prolonged labor without medical interventions such as cesarean section… Read more »
