Senior technical staff from the eight southern African counties which share the Zambezi basin held a working meeting in Maputo on Friday to discuss the next steps in implementing the strategy to develop and manage the water resources of the basin.

Architect Halima Tayo Alao, the Minister of Environment, Housing and Urban Development is a committed community leader who has served Nigeria in several professional and administrative positions before attaining her present status.

A suit to prevent the Ministers of Agriculture, Environment, the Edo State Commissioner of Police, their agents, servants or privies from removing water pipes, water pumping machines, valves and other equipment from Okpella Community in Edo State has been instituted at the Federal High in Benin by Okpella Forum.

Goodness International Limited (GIL), in collaboration with Kano State and the Federal Government, is to invest N7 to N8 billion in municipal solid waste facility project, a project considered to be the largest of its kind in the history of the state.

Residents of the Federal Capital Territory who depend on water supply from the FCT water board would soon be able to say exactly when they would have water or not as the board has set in motion processes leading to setting of specific standards for its services.

Thirty teachers representing 30 districts across the country have been trained on how to manage natural resources, especially water resources.

The Italian government has just disbursed a million euros (about 1.6 million US dollars) to support the Mozambican government in the emergency caused by the flooding in the Zambezi Valley and elsewhere in central and northern Mozambique, and in the fight against cholera.

A new public toilet will soon be constructed at the Warda junction in Yaounde. The former public toilet which served Yaounde inhabitants for a good number of years, had gone out of use.

President Yoweri Museveni has directed the Ministries of Finance and that of Water to release Shs300m for extension of piped water to Koboko town.

Residents of Nangwa in Nakisunga sub-county, Mukono district have vowed to block Seyan Brothers and Company from quarrying unless it constructs a health centre in the area.

A storm is brewing at the Water and Irrigation ministry over a recent reshuffle of its parastatal chiefs.

The number of people infected by a cholera outbreak in Guinea Bissau doubled in July to more than 600 and infections have spread to areas of the country previously considered low risk, health experts warn.

Recurrent outbreaks of the viral livestock disease peste des petits ruminants (PPR), which affects goats and sheep, are exacerbating poor food security in the mainly pastoralist Turkana region of northwestern Kenya.

A new report has revealed that every day, over 2.5 billion people suffer from a lack of access to improved sanitation, which refers to any facility that hygienically separates human waste from the environment.

Over 1000 farmers in Argungu Emirate penultimate Thursday, attempted to lynch the Kebbi State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Aliyu and the Emir of Argungu, Alhaji Samaila Mera at the Emir's palace protesting the siting of the N18 billion Zauro Polder irrigation project in Argungu. Aliyu who is the chairman, technical advisory committee on the project, had to be bundled out of the palace with the ...

Thousands of people are trooping into Mau forest with the hope of benefiting from the planned Government resettlement of illegal farmers, Maasai leaders claimed Tuesday.

Water minister Charity Ngilu Tuesday cancelled the inauguration of the board of directors of the Mombasa Water and Sewerage Company after protests marred the occasion.

Luanda's provincial secretariat of the Angolan Red Cross (CVA) will start, next September, a cholera prevention campaign, in collaboration with its German counterpart, aimed at informing the population about the cares to be taken with the disease.

Lamogi Sub-county headquarters lack adequate sanitation facilities even as Hepatitis E ravages the region. The Senior Health Assistant in Lamogi, Mr John Richard Odong, has asked the Amuru District Health Secretary, to close the sub-county headquarters for lack of adequate sanitary facilities.

The inhabitants of Shanono Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano State will soon have cause to smile, as the council's Chairman; Alhaji Suleiman Danjuma Shanono has reiterated a pledge to provide social amenities in the area for rapid development.

To meet its target of effectively addressing the problem of perennial water shortage in Dutse metropolis and other parts of the state, the Jigawa State Government plans to intensify its collaboration with the European Union (EU).

An illegal diesel dump operated by Julius Berger workers was over the weekend discovered inside a bush close to Berger's Quarry at Mpape.

The executive of Kigali City Council recently met and discussed many issues with the city residents, during an occasion organised by KCC at its headquarters in Nyarugenge.

SEVEN people, including a headmaster, will spend six months in jail for lacking latrines at home. They are Shaban Isiko, Bernard Kirunda, Bernard Babwone, Moses Kabweru, Jamilu Mukuba, Ismail Balazaine and Yonasani Kibampawo.

The direct involvement of political leaders in the Mau Complex evictions stands in the way of the Government's resolve to rid the forest of illegal settlers.