As Johannesburg grapples with a 10-day water outage affecting numerous suburbs, concerns are escalating over the city's water supply stability. Johannesburg Mayor Kabelo ... Read more »
Decades of lead mining by Anglo-Americans left the Kabwe community in Zambia gasping for breath, literally and figuratively. The land is choked with lead dust, the air thick with ... Read more »
Six months after catastrophic floods in Derna, Libya, resulted in the death of at least 4,352 people and displaced thousands, Amnesty International reports a lack of accountability ... Read more »
The deal which allows Ethiopia to construct a port in Somaliland has worsened relations with neighboring Somalia, which still claims the breakaway republic. Somalia Foreign ... Read more »
The Upper Manyame Sub-Catchment Council (UMSCC) in Zimbabwe has identified the presence of Escherichia coli (E.coli), a cholera-causing bacteria, in boreholes across 14 residential ... Read more »
This week marks a year since a cholera outbreak was first detected in Zimbabwe, with the health ministry official saying the fatality rate is declining, but the confirmed cases ... Read more »
Africa's Great Lakes span ten countries, provide over 25 percent of the earth's fresh water and are critical to the livlihoods of over 62 million people, according to the African ... Read more »
In a world drowning in plastic waste, a revolution is brewing. From January 23 to 25, South Africa played host to a groundbreaking meeting of international Plastics Pacts, ... Read more »
The Lagos State government has banned the usage and distribution of styrofoam and other single-use plastics in the state with immediate effect. Commissioner for the ... Read more »
Liberia is seeking to industrialise its fisheries sector to provide socio-economic growth, FrontPage Africa reports. The National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority Director ... Read more »
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