With running water close to home, women in four Zambian villages gain four hours per week for other activities, a WHO study finds. From growing vegetables to spending more time ... Read more »
Large-scale dams on the continent used for irrigation or flood control are reportedly coming up to a critical age. The Kariba Dam straddling Zimbabwe and Zambia is a key example, ... Read more »
The most derogatory remarks about what we eat are often linked with the urban space. For better or worse, cities are seen as the ultimate crossroads of food, nutritional and ... Read more »
Around 1.8 billion people are at heightened risk of COVID-19 and other diseases because they use or work in health care facilities without basic water services, warn the World ... Read more »
Globally, millions of people don't have access to water in their home. They collect water from shared water supply points or surface water sources and physically carry water ... Read more »
Extremist attacks, primarily in northern Nigeria, have killed tens of thousands of people since 2011, and displaced more than 2,5 million in the eight-nation Lake Chad Basin - ... Read more »
Residents of three slums in Nairobi county's Embakasi South and Starehe, have suffered severe water shortages for the past three weeks. The areas are Mukuru-Kwa Njenga in Embakasi ... Read more »
November 19th is when the UN celebrates the invention of the toilet. Those who are fortunate enough to have access to one, spend more than a year of their lives on it, yet millions ... Read more »
A Nairobi not-for-profit organization has expanded from providing education in the Kenyan capital's largest slum to a range of services in two sprawling settlements that create ... Read more »
Cape Town faces an 80% higher chance of another 'Day Zero' drought by the end of the century if greenhouse gas emissions keep rising at current rates, as the South African city ... Read more »
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