Access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene is a critical concern in remote communities like Ubo, also known as Simami, in the Rubochi Ward of the Federal Capital Territory in ... Read more »
The government has embarked on an operation code-named "Chenesa Harare" that will see garbage collected from the city while the treasury will provide funds to procure chemica Read more »
Tap water in most of South Africa's big cities is still rated as "safe" to drink - albeit declining - but the same cannot be said for municipal water supplies in large parts of the ... Read more »
According to its own data, the City of Cape Town has been pumping more sewage into the ocean at Hout Bay than is allowed. This contravenes the discharge permit granted by the ... Read more »
A new UNICEF report has revealed that 1 in 3 children, or 739 million globally, currently live i Read more »
Johannesburg is cutting off water and electricity in poor areas and nursing homes, and enforcing outstanding payments at roadblocks while government departments owe hundreds Read more »
The Executive Director of Africa Youth Growth Foundation (AYGR), Dr Arome Salifu, has said that 1.4 million Nigerians are killed by diseases traceable to inadequate handwash Read more »
More than 26,000 people have been forced to flee their homes owing to floods caused by the widespread leakage of Ghana's Akosombo dam on the Volta River. Due to a steady rise Read more »
Water is a basic human need and a fundamental resource essential to our existence. Challenges brought about by its scarcity remind us how it sustains our world. Lacking acces Read more »
President William Ruto says Kibera slums will not exist in the next decade because of the affordable housing project that is currently being rolled out. Ruto said t Read more »
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