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Nigeria: Yearly Dance Over Environment
Shell's annual meetings tend to follow a familiar routine: company officials report on the past year's activities and performance and activists call for more effective efforts to clean up oil pollution.
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Zambia: Decreasing Water Opportunity for Women
Decreasing water levels in the Lunkhwakwa River have created an opportunity for enterprising women of the surrounding areas to get involved in fishing.
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Kenya: Global Campaign on Wildlife Bill
Conservationists in Kenya have launched an international campaign to push the government to set up an emergency amendment to the country's Wildlife Bill.
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Nigeria: Shell Asked to Clean up Mess
UNEPClimate Talks Need Fresh Ambition
Bruce Guetner/Flickr'Desperate Times' for Zimbabwe Farmers
Khristopher Carlson/IRINUganda: 2011 Worst Year for Wildlife
Flickr/Tom VoglerTanzania: Help for Drought-Hit Farmers
Guy Oliver/IRINShell Shuts Office as Ogonis Protest
Elaine Gilligan/Friends of the EarthKenya: Farmers and Brewers Toast Sorghum
Jaspreet Kindra/IRINSouthern Africa: Expedition to Highlight Human-Animal Interface
FAOTanzania: Massive Kaolin Deposits Untapped in Pugu Hills
Anglogold Ashanti/MediaClub SASmelter's Future Hangs in Balance
ZimplatsFloods Cause Havoc in Kenya
Aliyu Adekunle/VangaurdZimbabwe: Questioning Sewage-Fed Vegetables
ILRIZambia: Adventurer to Walk Length of Zambezi River
Victoria Falls 24Uganda: Oil Pipeline Project Progresses
Robert ByaruhangaOne Man's Trash is Another's Treasure
Selay Marius Kouassi/RNWUganda: Little Hands Go Green
Marc Hofer/UNESCOZimbabwe Ill-Prepared for Climate-Change
Kate Holt/IRINCameroon: Massacre of Elephants
Radio OkapiEast Africa: Reverting to Pastoralism
IRIN/Anthony MorlandClimate-Smart Agriculture: A Triple Win
InFocus: Environment
The flow of traffic was paralysed for hours after bridges were submerged by floods. Several homesteads were also affected with all households items soaked in water and a number of ... Read more »
A recent study has revealed sizable groundwater resources underneath the continent, but experts say this may be difficult to access. Read more »
Top Headlines
- Cameroon: Forests Pressured As Leaders Welcome Palm Oil Investors (AlertNet)
- Nigeria: Shrinking Lake Chad Threatens 18 Million Citizens (Daily Trust)
- Nigeria: FG to Generate 30 Percent Electricity With Coal in 2015 (Daily Trust)
- Rwanda: Gov't Backtracks On Wetland Report (New Times)
- Ethiopia: Expansion of Lake Beseka a Threat to Metehara (Addis Fortune)
- Mozambique: Signs of Recovery in Gorongosa National Park (AIM)
- Liberia: Ellen - Water Is Life (Heritage)
- Ghana: First Meeting of Green Climate Fund Board Postponed (Public Agenda)
- Liberia: Gov't. Ready to Dish Out Millions to WASH Sector (Informer)
- Liberia: CSO Frowns On WASH Sector Ministries (Heritage)
- Namibia: NMP Commits to Environmental Preservation (New Era)
- Namibia: Be Warned (Namibia Economist)
- Namibia: Understanding Weather - Not Predicting - 11 May 2012 (Namibia Economist)
- Liberia: GOL, WASH Launch Compact Awareness (Analyst)
- Ghana: Water - the Means to End Poverty (Public Agenda)
- Namibia: Recyclers Grow in Capacity (Namibia Economist)
- South Africa: Losing Natural Biodiversity Could Cost Us the Earth (Biz-Community)
- Mozambique: President Guebuza Visits Xai-Xai Water Supply System (AIM)
- Uganda: Nebbi School Storm Disaster Forces 300 Pupils Out (New Vision)
- Kenya: Global Campaign to Amend Wildlife Bill (The Star)
- Kenya: Coast to Go Without Water for Three Days (The Star)
- Kenya: Relaunch Wildlife Conservation (The Star)
- Kenya: Malindi Needs Two Million to Drain Off Rain Water (The Star)
- Kenya: Suspected Poacher Arrested in Mwatate (The Star)
- Tanzania: Minister Stresses Forests Conservation (Daily News)
- Zambia: While Men Go Drinking, Women Go Fishing (IPS)
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