Environment
Accra News
Seasonal rains arrive in Accra.
The start of the rainy season in the capital has been accompanied by flash floods and damage to property caused by heavy rainfall and blocked drains. Traders at the newly opened Pedestrian Shopping Ma...
Cape Town News
Cape Town faces sewage crisis.
City officials have warned of an imminent sewage crisis in Cape Town if improvements are not made to waste water treatment plants in the city. Mayoral committee member for trading services Lionel Roel...
Cape Town News
Darling wind farm under construction.
The construction of the Darling Wind Farm north west of Darling in the Western Cape is now underway following an official sod-turning ceremony in mid-February. The farm is a project of the Central Ene...
Accra News
Trees in Ghana: Greening Ghana Initiative.
Every last Saturday of the month until December 2007 is to be devoted to tree-planting in Ghana in an attempt to restore the depleted forest cover in the country. On these days local community groups...
Lagos News
Night street sweeping begins in Lagos.
Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has begun sweeping main roads at night as part of efforts to clean up the state,
Cairo News
Just over nine million tourists visited Egypt in 2006, tourism minister Zoheir Garana has said. The figure represents a slight increase over 2005, when approximately 8.6 million people visited the cou...
Accra News
Clean-up exercise in Accra announced.
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has earmarked Saturday 20 January as a clean-up day in the capital as part of preparations for the 50th anniversary of Ghanaian independence in March. The authori...
Cape Town News
The Cape Town government is urging residents to cut back on the use of water in a bid to conserve the precious resource. The measures, incorporated in two bylaws passed in 2006, include a permanent ba...
Maputo News
Maputo's new rubbish fees postponed.
Payment of the new, higher rubbish collection tax in Maputo is to begin in March rather than in January as originally announced, the state news agency AIM has said. The delay is due to problems with t...
Nairobi News
Climate change meeting in Nairobi.
Up to 10,000 representatives of government, non-governmental organisations, the private sector and the academic community will gather in Nairobi 6-17 November for an international meeting on climate c...
Nairobi News
Closure of Dandora rubbish dump announced.
The huge rubbish dump in Dandora in eastern Nairobi could close shortly, Misna news agency reports. The announcement was made by the environment minister following a visit to the largest refuse heap i...
Cape Town News
False Bay environmental centre.
Cape Town has a new environmental education centre in False Bay ecology park south of the city centre. The centre on the southern shores of Zeekoevlei, reputedly South Africas largest freshwater lake,...
Maputo News
Great Limpopo border post opened.
Visitors to the Great Limpopo Transfrontier National Park spanning parts of Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe can now use a border post inside the area to move around more freely. Opened in mid Au...
Nairobi News
The National Environmental Management Authority has called a halt to all building projects in the Masai Mara pending agreement upon a new management plan for the game reserve. The moratorium, announce...
Nairobi News
There are numerous activities in and around Nairobi to mark World Environment Day on 5 June, which this year has the theme Dont desert drylands!. Jomo Kenyatta University Environmental Management Asso...
Addis Ababa News
Rehabilitation for city waterways.
Rivers and tributaries in Addis Ababa are to get an overhaul as part of a 24 million Birr rehabilitation managed by the local environmental protection agency (EPA). The independent business weekly new...
Cape Town News
The mayoral committee has given its backing to an energy-purchase agreement with Darling Wind Farm north of Cape Town, paving the way for the use of wind power in the city from 2007. The recommendatio...
Cape Town News
Cape Town authorities have announced plans to manage and improve local air quality with a special focus on reducing polluting diesel vehicle emissions. To this end the city council is offering free di...
Accra News
1 April, 3 June, 5 August, 7 October and 2 December have been designated as environmental clean-up days in Accra as part of efforts by the local authorities to improve conditions in the capital. All r...
Nairobi News
The Nairobi Arboretum is to get a new boundary fence as part of an ongoing project to overhaul the park which is funded by the biodiversity conservation programme of the European Union. The fence shou...
