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The Department of Health has heightened its awareness campaign around the spread of cholera as visitors and foreign nationals return back from their December holidays in neighbouring countries.
The Kuje Area Council in the FCT says it will provide three additional water tankers to Rubochi communities to cushion the perennial water scarcity in the area.
ANAMBRA State government says plans have been concluded for the rehabilitation of the collapsed Unubi Water Scheme in Nnewi South local government area before the Easter celebration in line with the state's integrated development strategy.
The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe appears to be worsening daily, with new figures showing the official death toll has climbed since last Friday.
Nearly nine million dollars of donor aid intended to support transboundary water management projects in southern Africa was diverted elsewhere after governments in the region failed to submit proposals for funding.
CONSTRUCTION of a major dam for the $27m (sh53b) Buseruka power project in Hoima is on course, the project manager has said.
For most residents of Iju where the Lagos State Water Corporation is situated, getting potable water is like a needle passing through the eye of the camel.
VENEZUELA yesterday donated nearly 70 tonnes of humanitarian aid worth millions of United States dollars to combat cholera and castigated Western nations for trying to destabilise Zimbabwe for their selfish ends.
HARARE City Council has received aluminium sulphate for water purification from the United Nations Children's Fund
As part of preparations for the handing over ceremony of the presidential baton, from President John Agyekum Kufuor to the new president-elect, Professor John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills, waste management experts, Zoomlion Ghana Limited has organised a special clean up exercise to rid the capital city off filth for the historic occasion.
GOVERNMENT has declared all district hospitals across the country cholera command centres as more aid continues to pour in, with Venezuela announcing that it was sending a team of rescue workers with 74 tonnes of humanitarian aid.
The death toll as a result of the devastating cholera outbreak has continued to rise, as fears grow that the situation will get worse as the rainy season peaks.
The Clean and Green crusade being championed in Imo State by Governor Ikedi Ohakim administration has convicted about 2,000 persons for sanitation offences.
EBENDO community vigilance group in Ndokwa council area of Delta State has arrested three persons for dumping over 30,000litres of suspected toxic waste in the community farmland even as it called on all relevant authorities in the state and country to deal decisively with the defaulting company.
For the more than six million people in Kaduna, one recurrent problem has been the acute shortage of potable water.
The residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are going to enjoy a 24 hour water supply. The minister of the territory Senator Adamu Aliero, made this known yesterday when he visited the Lower Usamn dam in Bwari.
THE two people who died in Tororo district on Christmas day suffered from diarrhoea and not cholera, the district director of health services, Dr. David Okumu, has said.
Residents in Togo's northern Savanes region say when it is dry here, not a drop of water can be found for kilometres. But when the floods come, nothing holds back the storms' fury.
As water captured in village wells during the 2008 rainy season runs out or dries up, residents in southern Mauritania are spending more time and travelling farther in their hunt for water. Water gatherers in Boura village, 400km southeast of the capital Nouakchott, told IRIN January means the start of longer water treks.
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has advised the Nile Basin countries to focus on conserving the water catchment areas at the source of the River Nile instead of focusing on sharing the waters.
Mereb Construction Company implemented major development and reconstruction projects worth about 200 million Nakfa over the past couple of years, according to Lt. Colonel Haile Mesfin, manager of the company.
KADUNA State government on Wednesday said it was committed into an agreement with an investor on the establishment of a N3 billion waste recycling company through a Private-Public-arrangement.
The FCT Minister, Senator Mohammed Adamu Aliero has assured residents of the Federal Capital Territory that, in six months, if on going projects are completed, most parts of the territory will have potable water for domestic and other uses.
Angola's Minister of Energy, Emanuela Vieira Lopes, on Tuesday met with the management of Kambambe Dam, during a few hours visit she paid to that undertaking, Angop has learnt.
The death toll from the worst cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe's history continues to rise and now stands at 1 608, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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