News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

On 25 February 2019, the Heads of State of 17 African countries* adopted a climate investment plan for the Sahel region. Scheduled over a period of 12 years, it has been allocated funds amounting to €350 billion. A priority programme for the period 2020-2025, and decided at the Paris Agreement, identified six projects to limit […]

Save the Niger. This was the watchword exclaimed in 2015 on the occasion of the COP21. Africa’s third longest river (4,200 km) after the Nile and the Congo, its basin covers almost 2 million km² at the heart of West Africa and part of Central Africa. A vital resource for Mali, it feeds 85% of […]

Evening for the general public organised during the Festival Quai du Départ.