Inside the Cross-Border Network Exposing the Environmental Crisis Facing Africa’s Longest River

Inside the Cross-Border Network Exposing the Environmental Crisis Facing Africa’s Longest River

In 2017, inside a modest media nonprofit office in Kampala, Uganda, a collaboration between Ugandan journalist Fredrick Mugira and US journalist Annika McGinnis gave rise to InfoNile, one of Africa’s most ambitious environmental journalism initiatives. InfoNile relies on geo-journalism, a form of storytelling that combines data, satellite imagery, and geographic information systems (GIS). What began as a project under Water Journalists Africa, a…