Yearly Archives: 2016

Cover

Released environmental activist set for interrogation

Environmental activist and erstwhile Chairman of the Cross River State Forestry Commission (CRSFC), Dr. Odigha Odigha, who was last Thursday morning arrested in his...

admin - July 24, 2016

Water & Sanitation

AWF commits €1.6 billion to continental water, sanitation projects

The African Water Facility (AWF) has committed 1.6 billion euros to implement water and sanitation projects in the region. AWF Chairman, Suleiman Adamu, said this...

admin - July 23, 2016

Sustainable Devpt

Nations adopt fresh biodiversity pact commitments

One hundred and one Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have now submitted new national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs), setting...

admin - July 22, 2016

Climate Change

Poor need better weather alerts for climate risk, says Kofi Annan

Growing up in Ghana, I learned how harsh the harmattan can be. The dry, dusty wind from the Sahara sweeps across West Africa from...

admin - July 22, 2016

Water & Sanitation

Need for transparency in Africa water resource management underlined

Corruption has been identified as one of the biggest problems that has affected the water sector not to function as expected on the African...

admin - July 22, 2016

Water & Sanitation

Water security, sanitation must be for all by 2030 – CSOs insist

Civil society organisations under the banner of Africa civil society Network on Water and sanitation (ANEW) have called for an ambitious roadmap to achieving...

admin - July 22, 2016

Water & Sanitation

Nations urged to double efforts to save Lake Chad, curb migration

Countries in the Lake Chad region have been enjoined to double efforts to save the dwindling water body that is aggravating environmental degradation and...

admin - July 21, 2016

Human Settlement