Who Holds the Valve? Water, War and the Price of Peace

Oct 18, 2026 | Kator Ifyalem
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Water now sits at the centre of African security politics. The pressure comes from three directions at once, dams being built faster than agreements are written, power stations being destroyed in wartime, and a continent where roughly 60 per cent of water resources cross a border. Rivers run through countries that signed different treaties, in different decades, with different armies behind them.