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Photojournalists share life on Nile

Photographers and journalists from Nile Basin countries meet in Cairo to show their stories about the Nile in the EveryDayNile project amid growing concerns of water shares and cleanness.
Agnes Naigaga, 53, stands on Lake Victoria in a boat, at the spot where her clinic once stood, Aug. 27, 2021.

CAIRO — The EveryDay Nile Photo Exhibition proposes video clips that shed light on the other side of the lives of Nile residents, in an attempt to dive into their dreams and problems amid media reports and studies in which international water wars could start from the Nile River as governments of the riparian countries quarrel over additional water shares that are currently at stake due to both pollution and climate change.

In 2019, a set of discussions and meetings kicked off between a group of photographers, researchers and journalists across the Nile Basin countries. The meetings were held so as to start cooperation toward monitoring the stories of the residents on the banks of the Nile who rely on the river’s water for drinking, irrigation, fish wealth and energy generation purposes. The meetings were held within the framework of an initiative aimed at converging the views of the Nile residents and teaching them about the nature of life as well as the problems and challenges every country's residents face away from the stereotypes they tend to hold about each other.

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