News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

“The water song” Erik Orsenna of the French Academy – Collection of the Musée des Confluences of Lyon “In seven-year-old Moussa’s family, the trade of luthier is handed down from father to son. Flutes, koras, tam-tam djembes, rain sticks and kass kass are produced and repaired with care from generation to generation. However, ngombi harps […]

The United Nations Water Conference was held in New York from 22 to 24 March 2023. This was the first time since 1977 that this conference was held, and it brought together around 10,000 participants. 400 official events, subject to a rigorous selection procedure, were held in parallel with the conference. This was the case […]

The United Nations Water Conference 2023, held from 22 to 24 March in New-York, gathered nearly 10,000 participants. Its objective was to increase the urgency of actions aimed at solving the crisis of water and drainage, and ensuring fair access to water and drainage for all. It ended with the adoption of the Water Action […]

This is the number of measures foreseen by the French government to combat water shortages in the framework of the Water Plan presented at the end of March. You can find the following here: Press kit – 30 March 2023, Action plan for resilient and concerted water management (ecologie.gouv.fr)  

Interview with Mohamed Abdel Vetah – OMVS High Commissioner Appointed in November 2022 at the head of the Senegal River Development Organisation, (OMVS), Mohamed Abdel Vetah, from Mauritania, former Minister of Oil, Mines and Energy of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and PhD in computer science, succeeded the Malian Hamed Diane Seméga. The 8th High […]

Event labeled by the UN, in the framework of the World Water Conference The association Initiatives pour l’Avenir des Grands Fleuves (IAGF), The Bridge Tank and the Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du Fleuve Sénégal (OMVS) are organizing, with the support of Guinea and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a side-event during the […]