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AMCOW wants countries to increase water budget

The African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) has called on member-countries to increase their budget for water in order to meet the Sustainable Development...

admin - July 19, 2016

Water & Sanitation

African countries urged to implement water, sanitation projects

Development partners on Monday called on African countries to implement water and sanitation projects toward meeting the Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDGs) on Water...

admin - July 19, 2016

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Lagos urged to shift stand on water privatisation

Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has asked the Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Obasa Mudashiru, to side with Lagos...

admin - June 29, 2016

Water & Sanitation

Tough choices for Ethiopia’s Boricha district amid water shortages

In Boricha district of Ethiopia, women and children walk up to five hours to collect water from shallow and unprotected ponds which they share...

admin - June 13, 2016

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Group knocks Lagos legislator’s water privatisation stand

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has described suggestions by the Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, that...

admin - June 13, 2016

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Military eases water shortage in Kaduna community, constructs borehole

Apparently moved by a publication on plight of residents of Kanti village, a community located west of Rigasa, a suburb of Kaduna metropolis, North-West...

admin - June 12, 2016

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Nigeria, others tackle continental water, food insecurity challenges

In the light of the food security and the water-food-energy-ecosystem nexus, some nine nations embarking on a new initiative in collaboration with the Global...

admin - June 6, 2016

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From Flint to Lagos: Time for democratic control of water

Akinbode Oluwafemi (director of corporate accountability at Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria) and Kelle Louaillier (president of Corporate Accountability International, based in Boston,...

admin - May 24, 2016

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