The City of Cape Town intends commissioning three water desalination plants at Granger Bay, Dido Bay and Hout Bay to provide extra drinking water for its residents and visitors - ... Read more »
Gauteng receives most of its share of water from provinces that are still recovering from the gripping drought, and consumers are being urged to continue using the resource ... Read more »
President Ernest Bai Koroma fought back tears as he described the devastation. Rescue workers have been searching for survivors amid the hundreds of homes that were engulfed by mud ... Read more »
At least 400 people have died and hundreds more are still missing after torrential rains on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown caused a mountainside to collapse on to ... Read more »
An investigation by Knysna Chief Fire Services officer Colin Manuel has suggested that a small fire using pine cones as kindling burned out of control and caused one of the ... Read more »
Nigeria has seen heavy rains and thunderstorms since the begining of the year which resulted to flooding, killing dozens of people and washing houses away. Poor urban ... Read more »
The government has directed some of its institutions - including prisons, hospitals, military camps and schools - to start phasing out the use of charcoal as a source of cooking ... Read more »
Britain is to ban all new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2040 amid fears that rising levels of nitrogen oxide pose a major risk to public health. This move will have an ... Read more »
Health Principal Secretary Julius Korir said Kisumu, Garissa, Machakos and Nairobi counties have been mapped out as problem areas. He say the government has sought the help of ... Read more »
The Minster of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi has said that the network of rivers, creeks, lagoons and lakes are great resources that should be utilised by the private sector for trade ... Read more »
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