Lundi 2 février 2026: Nwamaka Chigozie Odili

Résumé:

Cooperation is an important principle for regulating shared watercourses. All substantive and procedural principles of international water law enjoy support of principle of cooperation for both expression and application. Since riparian states must agree to cooperate and cannot cooperate in vacuum, water treaties and agreements have become the principal medium for expressing this obligation. Current water regimes reflect cooperation by either stressing institutional cooperation or by obligating riparians to cooperate. Africa in particular has pro¬gressed tremendously in managing its shared water resources through direct or indirect emphases on the principle of cooperation based on region focused approaches. With increase in industrialisation, early post-independent water regimes progressed from navigation to non-navigational uses such as irrigation and the need to control pollution of fresh water. Current water treaties in Africa are influenced by principle of cooperation enunciated in global water treaties (the UN Watercourses Convention, UNECE Water Convention) and other innovations of the late 20th Century that influenced international water law. Basin states in the different regions of Africa developed strategies to address regional challenges and achieve resilience and sustainability in both using and man¬aging transboundary watercourses. Despite some progress, transboundary water cooperation in Africa is region focused, fragmented and devoid of coherence. Africa and its nations could still benefit from a more coherent and progressive pattern of transboundary water-course cooperation to meet the required standard of Sustainable Development Goal 6 on clean water and sanitation.

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