The Sources of the Nile The Sources of the Nile

We travel to the sources of the Nile in Jinja, Uganda, to celebrate #EverydayNile photo-exhibition and the end of the project Open Water Diplomacy, reflecting on how our journey has contributed to water diplomacy by connecting people, places, and stories.

Yasir Mohamed, associate professor of hydrology and former Minister of Water and Irrigation of Sudan, and Mohamed Abdulrahman, journalist and former director of the Sudanese News Agency, reflect on their experience as member of the Sudanese negotiation team on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

2019 is the year of the Nile, marking the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Nile Basin Initiative. We join the celebrations with twenty special wishes to the river and its people: happy birthday!

Who speaks for the river? We ask the question to Wubalem Fekade, head of communication at ENTRO-Nile Basin Initiative and to three journalists of the transboundary magazine The Niles: Esther Muwombi (Uganda), Elzahraa Jadallah (Sudan) and Rehab Abd Almohsen (Egypt).

Songs play a key role in reproducing Nile stories. Can music promote also dialogue and shared identities along the river? With Alia Mossallam, Egyptian researcher affiliated to the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation at the Freie Universität in Berlin, and with Mina Girgis, ethnomusicologist and founder of The Nile Project.

How do international media and observers talk about the Nile? With Ana Cascao, independent researcher, and Alastair Leithead, BBC Africa correspondent, we question if the "water war" frame is the most appropriate to represent what is happening in the Nile basin.