South Africa: Chasing the Final Flush

There is no shortage of jokes and a long list of euphemisms when it comes to talking about toilets. Read more »

Liberia: Tapping Official and Grassroots Efforts On Water

In July 1990, as then-rebel leader Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia advanced on Monrovia, Taylor's guerrilla fighters attacked the White Plains water treatment… Read more »

Liberia: Pipe Dreams - Waiting for Water in Monrovia

"The hanging latrines" of West Point are not one of Liberia's most celebrated beauty spots. But this modest collection of elevated toilets, erected on the banks of the Mesurado… Read more »

South Africa: Dreams of Better Sanitation Go Down the Toilet

Gogo Sikhosana Ngcobo is 76 years old. Growing up, she says she had dreams of what her life would be like. They featured a brick house with a flushing toilet. Those dreams, like… Read more »

Kenya: Operation Hirola - Saving Africa's Rarest Antelope

While the world focuses on the African Union effort to oust Al Shabaab militants from Somalia, another operation is quietly plugging away along the country's southern border with… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: New Monkey Species Identified in DRC

Scientific journal Plos One has published a paper in which scientists describe a new species of monkey they found living in the remote forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo.… Read more »

East Africa: Farmers Adapting but Food Insecurity Persists, Researcher Says

About a year after East Africa's worst drought in six decades peaked, a survey of more than 700 smallholder farmers across four regional countries reveals that food insecurity… Read more »

South Africa: Farming Grows Jobs and Profits

While small-scale agriculture has been earmarked by the South African government as a sector with the potential to create jobs and stimulate economic growth, small-scale farmers… Read more »

Kenya: Ngilu Pursues Presidency on Pro-Poor Platform

Kenya's water and irrigation minister, Charity Kaluki Ngilu announced her bid for the presidency this week as leader of the National Rainbow Coalition. She calls it the "party of… Read more »

South Africa: Cities Often Hinder Food Security, Say Experts

Rising food prices, changes in climatic conditions and the growing number of people without enough nutritious food featured at the top of the agenda at a session on food security… Read more »

Africa: Pumps, Policies and Private Investment

As World Water Week draws to a close, a new report highlights the promise of small-scale irrigation schemes. "Water for Wealth and Food Security" touts simple interventions, such… Read more »

Africa: Toilet Tales - Health Gains Without Wasting Water, or Excrement

Although there were no African prizewinners this week from a toilet challenge sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, South African Professor Chris Buckley doesn't… Read more »

Africa: African Govts Urged to Support Unhindered Reporting on Global Warming

Ahead of the Rio+20 conference in Brazil next week, African journalists have called on governments to allow them to report independently on issues related to global warming. Read more »

Africa: Presidents Commit to Nurturing Africa's 'Natural Capital'

Until Africa's forests are valued for the oxygen they produce for the world's ecosystems, they will be worth more when they are dead than alive, said Liberian president Ellen… Read more »

Somalia: European Military Launches Air Raid On Pirates

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

Africa: Aiming for a Predictable Water Supply

As the Sixth World Water Forum is being held in Marseille, France, this week, AllAfrica looks at the lack of predictable water supplies and challenges to building infrastructure to… Read more »

Africa: Farmers Shape Global Future Say World Leaders

Expanding the yield of smallscale agriculture is vital – not only to feed those in need, but to ensure global stability and preserve the environment. Read more »

Kenya: New Seeds Boost Yields for Drought-Hit Farmers

For a couple that has weathered the dual tests of early retirement and repeated crop failures, it might have seemed an impossible dream to former primary-school teacher Philip… Read more »

North Africa: The Forgotten Uprising - Climate Change & North Africa

The North African States are located in an arid region with a Saharan climate to the South and a Mediterranean climate to the North, typified as one of the world’s most… Read more »

Africa: Addressing Climate Change as a Human Rights Issue

Twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the promise of sustainable development will be revisited again at the 2012 Rio+20 United Nations Conference on… Read more »

Kenya: Livestock Insurance - A Chance to Outsmart Drought?

The first thing that hits a visitor to Ginda village in northern Kenya is the smell. Read more »

Uganda: Money in the Dirt

Soft spoken Kika is a 25 year old from Kampala, Uganda. I met him on a road trip from Nairobi to Durban with the We have Faith Caravan with over 130 youth from all over the world.… Read more »

Africa: Tea Research Key to a Growing Industry

Pelly Malebe's research on helping plants withstand drought is personal as well as scientific. She grew up in South Africa's drought-prone northern province of Limpopo, where crop… Read more »

Africa: Caravan of Hope

Fifteen days, six caravans, six countries ... 160 young people from all over the world gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, to begin the journey of a lifetime. The African Youth Initiative… Read more »

Africa: Covering Climate Change - a Life-changing Experience of Learning for African Journalists

After traveling through Africa to Durban to cover the UN climate change conference, described by many of the African journalists as "life-changing", an exchange between the African… Read more »