Chad River Basin

• Agreement creating a Development Fund of the Chad Basin Commission. Done in Yaoundé, 22 October 1973

Congo River Basin

• General Act of the Berlin Conference on West Africa, 26 February 1885

Cuvelai River Basin

• Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Angola and the Government of the Republic of Namibia on the Establishment of Cuvelai Water Commission (CUVECOM). Signed in Windhoek, Namibia, on 16 September 2014

Gambia River Basin

• Convention Relating to the Creation of the Gambia River Basin Development Organisation. Signed at Kaolack, 30 JUNE 1978

Kagera River Basin

• Agreement for the establishment of the Organization for the Management and Development of the Kagera River Basin (with attached map). Concluded at Rusumo, Rwanda, on 24 August 1977; Came into force on 5 February 1978.  1089 U.N.T.S. 165 (1978).   Rwanda, Burundi and United Republic of Tanzania

Kwando River Basin

• Agreement Between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (on their own behalf and on the behalf of the Government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland) and the Government of Portugal With Regard to Certain Angolan and Northern Rhodesian Natives Living on the Kwando River. Signed at Lisbon, 18 November 1954

Niger River Basin

• Act regarding navigation and economic co-operation between the States of the Niger Basin. Done at Niamey, on 26 October 1963; Came into force on 1 February 1966. Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Chad. United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 587, No. 8506, p. 9.
• Convention creating the Niger Basin Authority (with protocol relating to the development fund of the Niger Basin). Concluded at Faranah, Guinea, on 21 November 1980; Came into force on 3 December 1982. Niger, Benin, Chad, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mail, Nigeria, United Republic of Cameroon and Upper Volta
• Agreement concerning a study on the navigability of the central portion of the Niger River. Signed at Niamey, on 22 September 1967; Came into force on 22 September 1967. Netherlands, Dahomey, Mail, Niger and Nigeria
• Agreement concerning the Niger River Commission and the navigation and transport on the River Niger. Done at Niamey on 25 November 1964; Came into force on 12 April 1966. Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Guinea, Upper Volta, Mali, Niger and Chad
• Agreement revising the Agreement concerning the Niger River Commission and the navigation and transport on the River Niger of 25 November 1964. Adopted at Niamey on 15 June 1973; Came into force on 15 December 1973. Niger, Benin, Chad, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mail, Nigeria, United Republic of Cameroon and Upper Volta
• General Act of the Berlin Conference on West Africa, 26 February 1885

Nile River Basin

• Treaty between the United Kingdom and Ethiopia, and between the United Kingdom, Italy, and Ethiopia, relative to the frontiers between the Soudan, Ethiopia, and Eretria. Signed at Addis Ababa 15 May 1902
• Exchange of Notes Between the United Kingdom and Italy Respecting Concessions for a Barrage at Lake Tsana and a Railway Across Abyssinia From Eritrea To Italian Somaliland. Signed at Rome 14 and 20 December 1925
• Exchange of notes between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Egyptian Government in regard to the use of the waters of the River Nile for irrigation purposes. Signed 7 May 1929; in force 7 May 1929
• Exchange of notes constituting an agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of Ethiopia amending the description of the Kenya-Ethiopia boundary. Signed at Addis Ababa 29 September 1949; in force 29 September 1949
• Exchange of notes constituting an agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of Egypt regarding the construction of the Owen Falls Dam. Signed in Uganda and Cairo 30 and 31 May 1949; in force 31 May 1949
• Exchange of notes constituting an agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of Egypt regarding the construction of the Owen Falls Dam. Signed in Uganda and Cairo 5 December 1949; in force 5 December 1949
• Exchange of notes constituting an agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of Egypt regarding the construction of the Owen Falls Dam in Uganda. Signed in Cairo 16 July 1952 and 5 January 1953; in force 5 January 1953
• Exchange of notes constituting an agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (on behalf of the Government of Uganda) and of the Government of Egypt regarding co-operation in meteorological and hydrological surveys in certain areas of the Nile Basin. Cairo, 19 January,28 February and 20 March 1950; Came into force on 20 March 1950, with effect from 1 March 1950. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Uganda, on behalf of Egypt
• Agreement (with Annexes) between the United Arab Republic and the Republic of Sudan for the full utilization of the Nile waters. Signed at Cairo, on 8 November 1959; Came into force on 22 November 1959. Protocol to the Agreement between the United Arab Republic and the Republic of Sudan for the full utilization of the Nile waters concerning the Establishment of the Permanent Joint Technical Committee. Signed at Cairo 17 January 1960; in force 17 January 1960
• Exchange of letters constituting an agreement between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Republic of Uganda on the Owen Falls extension project. Done in Cairo, 12 May 1991
• Framework for General Cooperation between the Arab Republic of Egypt and Ethiopia. Done in Cairo, 1 July 1993
• Agreement on the Nile River Basin Cooperative Framework. Opened for signature on 14 May 2010 in Entebbe, Uganda (not in force)
• Agreement on Declaration of Principles between The Arab Republic of Egypt, The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia And The Republic of the Sudan On The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Project (GERDP), done in Khartoum, Sudan, 23rd March 2015

Oranger River Basin

• Treaty Dated 1986 Between The Kingdom of Lesotho and the Republic of South Africa Pertaining to the Utilization of the Waters of the Senqu/Oranger River System

Senegal River Basin

• Convention creating the Organization for the Development of the Senegal River (OMVS). Done in Nouakchott, 11 May 1972 (in English)
• Convention Relating to the General Development of the Senegal River Basin (Convention Relative a l'Amenagement General Du Bassin Du Fleuve Senegal), Done in Bamako 26 July 1963. (in French)

Volta River Basin

• Agreement governing the operations of the Onchocerciasis Control Programme in the Volta River Basin area. Signed at Accra on 1 November 1973; Came into force on 1 November 1973. World Health Organization, Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Togo and Upper Volta [in English] [in French]

Zambezi River Basin

• Agreement on the Action Plan for the Environmentally Sound Management of the Common Zambezi River System. Done in Harare, 28 May 1987

Iullemeden Aquifer

• Memorandum of Understanding for the Establishment of a Consultation Mechanism for the Integrated Management of the Water Resources of the Iullemeden, Taoudeni/Tanezrouft Aquifer Systems (ITAS) (Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria). 2nd Council of Ministers of Gicresait Project, Abuja, Nigeria, Friday 28th March, 2014

Nubian Sandstone Aquifer

• Programme for the Development of a Regional Strategy for the Utilisation of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System (NSAS) - Terms of Reference For the Monitoring and Exchange of Groundwater Information of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System, Tripoli, 5 October 2000
• Constitution of the Joint Authority for the Study and Development of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer Waters, 1992

Northwestern Sahara Aquifer System

• Establishment of a Consultation Mechanism for the Northwestern Sahara Aquifer System (SASS), 2002

Senegal-Mauritanian Aquifer Basin

• Ministerial Declaration on the Senegalo-Mauritanian Aquifer Basin, Signed in Geneva, on the 29fh of September 2021 English / French

Lake Victoria

• Protocol for the Sustainable Development of Lake Victoria Basin, 29 November 2003
• Agreement on the Preparation of a Tripartite Environmental Management Programme for Lake Victoria, Done in Dar-es-Salaam, 5 August 1994

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