May 20

• Fiki Marine Blazes Trail in Fishing Expedition

  This Day

  Tourists and other picnickers to Lagos beaches have been having a swell time in the last four weeks, thanks to a tourism and leisure firm based on Ozumba Mbadiwe Street, Victoria... Read more »

May 18

• CDF Gives Cash in Bid to Save Wundayi River

  The Star

  The Wundanyi CDF has launched a project to rehabilitate the Wundanyi River in a bid to protect the environment. Wundanyi CDF official Gredo Mwakitani said the rehabilitation of the... Read more »

• Australia Helps Curb Illegal Pacific Fishing

  Biz-Community

  The Australian Defence Force mission against illegal fishing in the Pacific is progressing well after the successful completion of multi-national Operation RAI BALANG. Read more »

May 17

• Compensation Agreed for Pirate Victims

  AIM

  The Spanish-Mozambican fishing company Pescamar, which operated the "Vega 5", a vessel seized by Somali pirates in the Mozambique Channel in December 2010, has finally agreed to... Read more »

• Joint Maritime Exercise Commences

  U.S. Africa Command

  Service members from European, North African and U.S. Naval forces participated in a pre-sail conference kickoff for Exercise Phoenix Express 2012 (PE12) at the NATO Maritime... Read more »

May 16

• Africa May Struggle to Extract Groundwater, Experts Say

  SciDev.Net

  Vast groundwater resources have been revealed in Africa by the first continent-wide quantitative maps. But the resources may not be easily accessible because of political and... Read more »

• Japanese Trawler Salvage Continues

  SAPA

  Attempts to salvage a 50 metre-long fishing trawler off First Beach, Clifton, would continue beyond Wednesday, the City of Cape Town said. Read more »

• Nigeria's Marine Issues Dominate Abidjan Convention

  Daily Trust

  Issues along Nigeria's marine and coastal belt are set to dominate the country's participation at a United Nations convention in Congo Brazzaville this November. Read more »

May 15

• European Military Launches Air Raid On Pirates

  allAfrica.com

  European Union military forces carried out an air raid on what they called "pirate equipment" on the coast of Somalia on Tuesday. Read more »

• MP, DCE Go to Aid of Fishermen

  Ghanaian Chronicle

  The Member of Parliament, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, and the District Chief Executive for Ellembelle, Daniel K. Eshun, have swiftly jumped to the aid of fishermen in their area... Read more »

May 14

• A Dam Brings Food Insecurity to Indigenous People

  Worldwatch Institute

  Along its 760-kilometer course, from the Shewan highlands in southern Ethiopia, down to Lake Turkana in Kenya, the Omo River supports half a million Indigenous People from more... Read more »

• Swift Sailors, Naveur Band Visit Schoolchildren

  U.S. Africa Command

  Sailors from High-Speed Vessel Swift (HSV 2) and members from the Naval Forces Europe band "Topside" joined efforts in entertaining children at Institut National Supérieur... Read more »

• EAC Secretary General Embarks On Tour to LVBC, LVFO

  News of Rwanda

  The Secretary General of the East African Community Amb.Dr. Richard Sezibera is this week scheduled to visit two Institutions of the Community to acquaint himself with their... Read more »

• Lake Victoria U.S.$31 Millon Plan to Create Investment Gap

  EA Business

  Consultancy and expert Water Hyacinth control firms should look-out for investment opportunities after the approval of the 18-year $31m strategic plan for the Lake Victoria Basin... Read more »

• U.S. Firm to Turn Hyacinth Into Ethanol

  EA Business

  As the East African Community (EAC) was planning to release a total of Ksh1b for the removal of the water hyacinth from Lake Victoria, a United States based technology company has... Read more »

• USAID Welcomes New Global Guidelines on Land Governance

  USAID

  Today the U.S. Agency for International Development welcomed the formal endorsement of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and... Read more »

May 11

• Protecting Marine Life With Plastic

  Biz-Community

  Innovative plastic pipe bins are being used in a waste removal project - the first of its kind in South Africa - to clear discarded fishing line from beaches along the country's... Read more »

• Shots Fired Off Country Coast Miss Dutch Helicopter

  RNW Africa

  Shots fired off the coast of Somalia on Thursday missed hitting a Royal Netherlands Navy helicopter. Read more »

May 10

• Without a Fleet, Country Pays Billions in Maritime Services

  Biz-Community

  South Africa is a maritime country, with over 3000km of coastline and a vast seaward economic exclusion zone (EEZ), which was set to expand to 3.5 million square kilometres once... Read more »

• Police Identify Three Bodies Found in Okavango River

  Namibian

  The Police in the Kavango Region have identified the three bodies which were found floating in the Okavango River this past weekend. Read more »

• Climate Change - Council Race to Save Lake Chad

  Daily Trust

  Council of Ministers of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) consisting of all Heads of States of member countries of the basin have begun renewed effort to rescue Lake Chad which... Read more »

• On the Shores of the River Niger

  This Day

  There is a lot of cleaning up to be done at the Onitsha end of the iconic River Niger. Read more »

• FG Approves N3 Billion Patrol Boats for Customs

  Daily Trust

  The Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday approved N3 billion for the procurement of two speed boats for surveillance of Nigerian waters against smugglers. Read more »

• Lake Chad - Losing Its Stature Slowly

  Leadership

  Lake Chad is the only sizeable surface freshwater reservoir in the Sahel zone. Climatic factors, its uncontrolled use for irrigated farming, and high population pressure have... Read more »

May 9

• U.S Firm, Durban Talk Ocean Energy Plan

  SA Info

  US independent power provider Hydro Alternative Energy is in talks with the City of Durban on plans to develop a world-first project that would harvest hydrokinetic energy from the... Read more »