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<p>Airtel has acquired a 12-year unified license to operate as Airtel Rwanda, after operating for two years as Airtel-Tigo, on the other hand AfDB Group has approved an $8.9 million to support the preparation of the Ruzizi IV Hydropower Project and finally we will follow up on the first treasury bond that was issued this year by the government of Rwanda. Journalist of The New Times, Hudson Kuteesa joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


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<p>The impact of technology in business on the continent was very profound in the past five years, but what kind of impact will tech have in the new decade? Salah Goss of Mastercard joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


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<p>Non-communicable diseases are responsible for around 20 per cent of deaths in Rwanda and the trend is moving upward. To ensure early detection and advance disease management for people diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, 12 million test strips will be distributed in the country over the next four years. Bernard Brisolier, Business Unit Director for Abbott’s diabetes care business in Africa joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


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<p>Up to 60 million new jobs in the green economy could potentially be created worldwide by 2030. If properly managed, green growth can provide an opportunity to address the youth employment challenge while simultaneously preserving the environment and increasing climate resilience&#8230;.</p>


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<p>Ahead of the highly anticipated 2021 Presidential and MP elections in Uganda, all eyes are on the capital Kampala where it&#8217;s said that political observers note the contest likely to be between sitting President Yoweri Museveni and political new comer, Robert Kyagulanyi commonly known as Bobi Wine, but how will all of this political activity affect business in East Africa&#8217;s 3rd largest economy? Analyst and Chief strategist at ICS, Kenneth Agutamba joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


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<p>Uganda has secured a $200 million grant for the development of infrastructure network at Kampala’s Namamve Industrial Park where 200, 000 jobs are expected to be created while imports will be reduced. Analyst Charles Bwogi joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


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<p>The past couple of years has seen many exciting initiatives relating to Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and the overall Smart City movement develop. Concerns on issues such as job losses, security and ability to surpass human intelligence have been vocalized. Liliosa Muturi, Impact Manager at Samasource Kenya joins CNBC Africa for an understanding the impacts and potential of Artificial Intelligence in East Africa.</p>


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<p>NAIROBI (Reuters) &#8211; Kenya’s finance ministry cut its 2019 economic growth estimate to 5.6%, from an initial estimate of growth of about 6%, saying the move was caused by slower growth in the farming sector.</p>



<p>Economic expansion could bounce back to 6.1% this year, the ministry said.</p>



<p>Reporting by Duncan Miriri; Editing by Catherine Evans</p>


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<p>Vegetables export revenues in Rwanda grew by 47 per cent in the period July &#8211; November 2019 according to the National Agricultural Export Board, CNBC Africa&#8217;s Arnold Kwizera spoke to the Export Market Development and Innovation Division Manager at the National Agricultural Export Development Board, Cynthia Uwacu for more.</p>


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<span><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/ethan-d-coffel-389546">Ethan D. Coffel</a>, <em><a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/dartmouth-college-1720">Dartmouth College</a></em> and <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/justin-s-mankin-930128">Justin S. Mankin</a>, <em><a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/dartmouth-college-1720">Dartmouth College</a></em></span>

<p>The Nile – the world’s longest river – runs through <a href="https://ascelibrary.org/doi/pdf/10.1061/9780784481394.026">11 countries</a> in Africa and <a href="https://www.internationalrivers.org/campaigns/nile-basin">has a basin</a> that covers about 3 million sq kms, nearly 10% of the continent’s landmass. About <a href="http://atlas.nilebasin.org/treatise/estimated-and-projected-total-population-in-nile-basin-countries/">250 million people</a> are reliant on the Nile’s waters in Ethiopia, Uganda, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt. </p>

<p>Nearly all of the rainfall that feeds the Nile’s two major tributaries – the Blue and White Nile – falls in the upper Nile basin, found in South Sudan, western Ethiopia and Uganda. The lower Nile basin receives very little rainfall and the countries there – Sudan and Egypt – depend heavily on the Nile for water. </p>

<p>Climate projections suggest that, by the end of the century, the amount of rain in the Upper Nile basin could increase <a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019EF001247">by up to 20%</a>. But our <a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019EF001247">new paper</a> shows that, despite more rainfall, devastating hot and dry spells are projected to become more frequent in the Upper Nile basin. </p>

<p>These conditions will occur simultaneously with the region’s rapid population growth, <a href="http://atlas.nilebasin.org/treatise/estimated-and-projected-total-population-in-nile-basin-countries/">anticipated</a> to double by the middle of this century. This will increase water stress in the region, irrespective of the modest rainfall increases.</p>

<p>At present, around 10% of the basin’s population faces chronic <a href="https://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/scarcity.shtml">water scarcity</a> due to the region’s seasonal aridity and the highly unequal distribution of water resources. By 2040, according to our research – in a year with average temperatures and rain – the number of people facing water scarcity could reach 35%. That’s more than 80 million people without enough water to function in their daily lives.</p>

<p>Hot and dry conditions will make this worse. These conditions will kill crops, reduce hydropower, diminish the water available for people and industry and heighten tensions over the distribution of regional water resources. By 2040, a hot and dry year could push over 45% of the people in the Nile Basin – nearly 110 million people – into water scarcity. </p>

<p>Even without these developments, population growth would drive water scarcity in the Upper Nile. But larger deficits in the amount of water flowing into streams and rivers during future hot and dry years will amplify this effect. This will leave an additional 5% to 15% of the future population in the Upper Nile basin facing water scarcity in hot and dry years.</p>

<p>These climate and population changes will project onto an already complex and tense socioeconomic and political landscape. </p>

<p>The Nile’s 11 riparian states vie with one another for the river’s water. The downstream states of Egypt and Sudan try to assert control over the Nile flow, while upstream states try to find ways to secure water for their well-being. Coupled with the region’s strong dependence on subsistence agriculture and political instability, the region is at risk of severe food and water shortages. </p>

<h2>More hot and dry years</h2>

<p>For our research, we wanted to understand how much more frequent hot and dry years could become, despite the slight increase in overall rainfall.</p>

<p>To do this we assessed historical climate trends in the Upper Nile Basin using eight observational data sets. These recorded rainfall and temperature in the Upper Nile basin between 1961 and 2005. We also used climate models to estimate how temperature and precipitation will change over the remaining century.</p>

<p>Our findings show that hot and dry years have become more common over the past four decades in the Upper Nile basin and that this trend is likely to continue. These hot and dry conditions will be similar to those that have resulted in crop failures, food shortages and humanitarian crises in the region over the past decades.  </p>

<p>By the late 21st century, the frequency of these hot and dry years may rise between a factor of 1.5 and 3. In the past, hot and dry years occurred about once every 20 years; but this increase in frequency means that in the future a hot and dry year could occur once every six to 10 years, making them a common experience for people in the region. </p>

<p>In addition to becoming more frequent, they will also become more severe. Temperatures during heat waves in the region could rise between 2°C and 6°C, putting far more stress on people, animals and crops than occurs today.</p>

<p>We estimated the number of people facing water scarcity by comparing the total runoff – the amount of water flowing into streams and rivers – which is available for human consumption with the amount of water every person needs to meet their basic needs. When we make this comparison, we find that despite the small projected increase in rainfall, as the population rises and hot and dry years become more frequent, the total water supply will be far less than needed to meet the region’s needs.</p>

<h2>Causes</h2>

<p>What’s causing all this?</p>

<p>Like the rest of the world, the <a href="https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/documents/1860/A%20Climate%20Trend%20Analysis%20of%20Ethiopia.pdf">Nile Basin region has been warming</a> due to rising global greenhouse gas concentrations. Because rainfall is projected to slightly increase in the region, the frequency of dry years won’t change significantly. However, the rise in temperature means that when dry years happen, they will be hot. </p>

<p>Compounding this drying is a projected increase in the <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3273">year-to-year variations</a> in rainfall, which may be due to projected intensification of El Niño and La Niña cycles. This creates a <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0140-y">precipitation “whiplash”</a> in the region, where severe <a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/islamic-relief-responds-flash-floods-devastate-white-nile-sudan">wet</a> and <a href="https://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/18/1239/2014/">dry</a> years occur in quick succession. </p>

<h2>What can be done</h2>

<p>One critical priority is to ensure that food and water are more equally available to all. Despite there being enough food and water on average, many people <a href="https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/documents/1866/09.30.19_-_USAID-DCHA_Ethiopia_Complex_Emergency_Fact_Sheet_3.pdf">cannot afford or access it</a>. This will get worse.</p>

<p>A critical first step is for basin states to create an equitable water allocation scheme among them that not only addresses “historical rights” – such as Egypt’s long-held claims to <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03932729.2017.1333272">two-thirds of Nile flow</a> – but also to the needs of upstream countries like South Sudan and Ethiopia, which require water to build their economies. </p>

<p>Cooperative water-sharing institutions within the basin could help avert contentious situations. For instance, Ethiopia is currently constructing the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-dam-factbox/factbox-key-facts-about-ethiopias-giant-nile-dam-idUSKBN1XG21L">Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam</a> on the Blue Nile River. Without strong regional institutions to provide political and legal assurances of fair Nile water use, the dam’s construction is provoking worries in Egypt, as it would likely reduce irrigation water availability for the country’s agriculture.</p>

<p>Water may be often pointed to as a source of conflict, but as with the case of <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/%7Etmd2118/situstudio/why_cooperation.pdf">Israel and Jordan</a>, it can also be a means to cooperation, getting nations to the negotiating table. In a future world with more people and less water, countries in the Nile Basin will need to work together to ensure the best use of the region’s resources to catch and store rainfall in the wet, flood risk years, and equally distribute that water in dry years. </p>

<p>If the region’s governments fail to work together to prepare, the consequences for their people could be catastrophic.<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/129360/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" style="border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; margin: 0 !important; max-height: 1px !important; max-width: 1px !important; min-height: 1px !important; min-width: 1px !important; opacity: 0 !important; outline: none !important; padding: 0 !important; text-shadow: none !important" /></p>

<p><span><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/ethan-d-coffel-389546">Ethan D. Coffel</a>, Neukom Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, <em><a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/dartmouth-college-1720">Dartmouth College</a></em> and <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/justin-s-mankin-930128">Justin S. Mankin</a>, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, <em><a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/dartmouth-college-1720">Dartmouth College</a></em></span></p>

<p>This article is republished from <a href="http://theconversation.com">The Conversation</a> under a Creative Commons license. Read the <a href="https://theconversation.com/in-the-future-there-will-be-more-rain-but-less-water-in-the-nile-basin-129360">original article</a>.</p>

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<p>The need for affordable housing across the East African Community (EAC) member states is key on all government agendas for the year. Real Estate Analyst, Wacu Mbugua from Cytonn Investments joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


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<p>With over 66 per cent of Africa&#8217;s adult population largely unbanked, the ever growing role of fintechs on the continent cannot be undermined – Founder of EverSend Application, Stone Atwine joins CNBC Africa on the trends that will drive the industry in 2020.</p>


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<p>Egypt is blaming Ethiopia for the failure to come to an agreement in the latest sit down between the two countries in what has turned out to be a controversial Renaissance dam. Global Chairman of, Fairfax Africa Fund, Zemedeneh Negatu joins CNBC Africa on the latest stand-off between the two countries.</p>


Ethiopia asks SA to mediate talks over Nile Dam debacle with Egypt


<p>NAIROBI (Reuters) &#8211; Kenya’s earnings from tourism rose 3.9% last year to 163.56 billion shillings ($1.61 billion), thanks to a slight increase in the number of visitors, its tourism minister said on Friday.</p>



<p>The East African nation, which relies on tourism as a major source of foreign exchange and jobs, had 2.05 million tourists last year, an increase of 1%, said Najib Balala.</p>



<p>An attack on a hotel and office complex in Nairobi last January, and a general slowdown in the global tourism business, were to blame for the low growth in arrival numbers, he said.</p>



<p>Along with agricultural exports and money sent home by Kenyans living abroad, tourism is one of the top foreign exchange earners.</p>



<p>Kenya has a variety of products, from beach holidays at the coast to Safaris in the Maasai Mara wildlife reserve, but it attracts fewer visitors than African competitors like South Africa due to frequent political upheavals and insurgent attacks.</p>



<p>Between 2012 and 2015, visitor numbers and tourism earnings fell after a spate of attacks claimed by Somalia’s al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab, which wants Nairobi to pull its troops out of Somalia.</p>



<p>A reduction in attacks in the years that followed allowed the sector to rebound.</p>



<p>($1 = 101.5000 Kenyan shillings)</p>



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<p><em>FORBES AFRICA is on the hunt for Africans under the age of 30, who are building brands, creating jobs and transforming the continent, to join our Under 30 community for 2020.</em></p>



<p><strong>JOHANNESBURG, 07 January 2020:</strong> Attention entrepreneurs,
creatives, sport stars and technology geeks — the 2020 FORBES AFRICA Under 30
nominations are now officially open. </p>



<p>The
FORBES AFRICA 30 Under 30 list is the most-anticipated list of game-changers on
the continent and this year, we are on the hunt for 30 of Africa’s brightest
achievers under the age of 30 spanning these categories: Business, Technology,
Creatives and Sport.</p>



<p>Each year, FORBES AFRICA looks for resilient self-starters, innovators, entrepreneurs and disruptors who have the acumen to stay the course in their chosen field, come what may.</p>



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<p>Past
honorees include Sho Madjozi, Bruce Diale, Karabo Poppy, Kwesta, Nomzamo
Mbatha, Burna Boy, Nthabiseng Mosia, Busi Mkhumbuzi Pooe, Henrich Akomolafe,
Davido, Yemi Alade, Vere Shaba, Nasty C and WizKid.</p>



<p>What’s
different this year is that we have whittled down the list to just 30
finalists, making the competition stiff and the vetting process even more
rigorous.&nbsp; </p>



<p>Says
FORBES AFRICA’s Managing Editor, Renuka Methil: “The start of a new decade
means the unraveling of fresh talent on the African continent. I can’t wait to
see the potential billionaires who will land up on our desks. Our coveted sixth
annual Under 30 list will herald some of the decade’s biggest names in business
and life.” </p>



<p>If you think you have what it takes to be on this year’s list or know an entrepreneur, creative, technology entrepreneur or sports star under 30 with a proven track-record on the continent – introduce them to FORBES AFRICA by applying or submitting your nomination.</p>



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<p><strong>NOMINATIONS
CRITERIA:</strong></p>



<p><strong>Business
and Technology categories</strong></p>



<ol class="wp-block-list"><li>Must be an
     entrepreneur/founder aged 29 or younger on 31 March 2020</li><li>Should have a legitimate
     REGISTERED business on the continent</li><li>Business/businesses
     should be two years or older</li><li>Nominees must have risked
     own money and have a social impact</li><li>Must be profit generating</li><li>Must employ people in
     Africa</li><li>All applications must be
     in English</li><li>Should be available and
     prepared to participate in the Under 30 Meet-Up</li></ol>



<p><strong>Sports
category</strong></p>



<ol class="wp-block-list"><li>Must be a sports person
     aged 29 or younger on 31 March 2020</li><li>Must be representing an
     African team</li><li>Should have a proven
     track record of no less than two years</li><li>Should be making
     significant earnings</li><li>Should have some
     endorsement deals</li><li>Entrepreneurship and
     social impact is a plus</li><li>All applications must be
     in English</li><li>Should be available and
     prepared to participate in the Under 30 Meet-Up</li></ol>



<p><strong>Creatives
category</strong></p>



<ol class="wp-block-list"><li>Must be a creative aged 29
     or younger on 31 March 2020</li><li>Must be from or based in
     Africa</li><li>Should be making significant
     earnings</li><li>Should have a proven
     creative record of no less than two years</li><li>Must have social
     influence</li><li>Entrepreneurship and
     social impact is a plus</li><li>All applications must be
     in English</li><li>Should be available and
     prepared to participate in the Under 30 Meet-Up</li></ol>



<p><strong>Your
entry should include:</strong></p>



<ul class="wp-block-list"><li>Country</li><li>Full Names</li><li>Company name/Team you are
     applying with</li><li>A short motivation on why
     you should be on the list</li><li>A short profile on self
     and company</li><li>Links to published
     material / news clippings about nominee </li><li>All social media handles</li><li>Contact information</li><li>High-res images of
     yourself</li></ul>



<p>Nominations
must be sent via email to FORBES AFRICA journalist and curator of the list,
Karen Mwendera, on <a href="mailto:Karen.Mwendera@abn360.com">Karen.Mwendera@abn360.com</a> </p>



<p>Nominations
close on 3 February 2020.</p>


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