Victoria Uwemedimo
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
📍 journalist in Nigeria • ✍🏽 words & photos in @guardian @AFP @yahoonews • 👩🏽🎓 @columbiajourn ‘15 •👩🏽💻 for assignments: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
yaleclimateconnections.org | Victoria Uwemedimo |Katarina Zimmer
Para los habitantes de Mbiabet Esieyere y Mbiabet Udouba, en el extremo sur de Nigeria, la puesta de sol traía consigo a niños haciendo sus tareas a la luz de lámparas de queroseno y el tenue zumbido de generadores que emanaba de los hogares que podían permitirse su funcionamiento.
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1 week ago |
yaleclimateconnections.org | Victoria Uwemedimo |Katarina Zimmer
To the people of Mbiabet Esieyere and Mbiabet Udouba in Nigeria’s deep south, sundown would mean children doing their homework by the glow of kerosene lamps, and the faint thrum of generators emanating from homes that could afford to run them. Like many rural communities, these two villages of fishermen and farmers in the community of Mbiabet, tucked away in clearings within a dense palm forest, had never been connected to the country’s national electricity grid.
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2 weeks ago |
internazionale.it | Victoria Uwemedimo |Katarina Zimmer
Per gli abitanti di Mbiabet Esieyere e Mbiabet Udouba, nel sud della Nigeria, il tramonto era il momento in cui i bambini facevano i compiti al chiarore delle lampade a petrolio e in cui si diffondeva un tenue brusio dalle case che potevano permettersi di tenere accesi i generatori. Come molte comunità rurali nigeriane, i due villaggi di pescatori e contadini, chiusi all’interno di dense foreste di palme, non erano collegati alla rete elettrica nazionale.
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2 weeks ago |
es-us.noticias.yahoo.com | Victoria Uwemedimo |Katarina Zimmer
Para los habitantes de Mbiabet Esieyere y Mbiabet Udouba, en el extremo sur de Nigeria, la puesta de sol traía consigo a niños haciendo sus tareas a la luz de lámparas de queroseno y el tenue zumbido de generadores que emanaba de los hogares que podían permitirse su funcionamiento.
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1 month ago |
popsci.com | Victoria Uwemedimo |Katarina Zimmer
In 2022, a solar mini-grid was installed in the remote Nigerian village of Mbiabet Esieyere, bringing the community affordable, reliable power.
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Our article on solar mini-grid development in Nigeria for @KnowableMag, republished by @arstechnica 💡 #EnergySolutions #AfricanStories
For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids https://t.co/Qc54ZriwIr
Check out my piece for @KnowableMag about the impact of #SolarMiniGrids on African communities that have long been left in the dark: https://t.co/JkC9KiYYc1 Produced alongside the incredible @katarinazimmer #EnergyTransition #AfricaTech #RenewableEnergy #SolutionsJournalism
It was a pleasure to produce this photo essay about food sovereignty in #Kenya last year, and to explore the work @FundAgroecology is doing with smallholder farmers across the country 🇰🇪
🌱 Strengthening community-led #agroecological practices and fighting the vested interests that undermine them are the keys of #FoodSovereignty projects in #Kenya. @FundAgroecology @bittmanproject https://t.co/V0bDHud3WN
