Environment
Cape Town News
A three-day blitz of freezing weather has seen rare snowfall on Cape Town
Dar Es Salaam News
Water price regulations in Dar es Salaam
The Tanzanian government has announced plans to regulate water prices in Dar es Salaam to guarantee equal access for all.
Under the proposals the Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority (E...
Accra News
New park for Ghana around Korle Lagoon
The Ghana Wildlife Society had announced that it intends to build a second park in Accra in the Korle Lagoon restoration area.
It will take about five years to complete the project before it can b...
Arusha News
Deforestation warning for Tanzania
Tanzania is set to lose its entire forest cover within the next 100-160 years if more is not done to reduce the current rate of deforestation, the United States-based environmental watchdog Conservati...
Cape Town News
The southern Western Cape is in the grips of the worst drought for 150 years, the provincial water department has said. The situation seems to be worsening despite the onset of winter and the prospect...
Lagos News
Unease in Lagos over late harmattan
The bad weather affecting Lagos in the last few days has led to fears of acid rain and there have been warnings not to harvest rainwater on the grounds that it may be polluted.
Allafrica.com, a rel...
Cape Town News
Climate change is likely to have a devastating effect on Cape Town and the surrounding areas, according to a report presented by the city
Addis Ababa News
Arup helps Addis Ababa reduce carbon emissions
City authorities have announced plans to develop a carbon reduction programme in Addis Ababa. Working with global engineering group Arup in a project run by the William J. Clinton Foundation, authorit...
Dar Es Salaam News
Climate change conference in Dar es Salaam
Representatives of governmental and inter-governmental agencies, research institutions and non-governmental organisations are to gather in Dar es Salaam from 24-27 February to explore how local commun...
Cape Town News
Cape Town's Robben Island overrun by rabbits
Robben Island in Table Bay 12 km north of Cape Town, where Nelson Mandela spent 18 years in prison during apartheid, is overrun by rabbits. The situation has become so serious that marksmen have now b...
Addis Ababa News
Addis Ababa to get solar street lighting
Ten street lights near Meskel Square are to be powered by solar panels in a pilot scheme that could pave the way for the use of solar powered street lighting across Addis Ababa.
The project is the...
Maputo News
Large parts of Maputo flooded on 27 January as a result of sudden heavy rain, the Mozambican news agency AIM reports.
The National Disaster Management Institute (INGC) has said that the flooding af...
Arusha News
The number of arrests for poaching in the Serengeti national park increased from 959 cases in 2002 to 1028 in 2009, according to an article in the Arusha Times.
During a recent visit of a parliame...
Accra News
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has banned the use of pan, or bucket, latrines in the capital in compliance with a 2008 supreme court ruling that pan latrines be outlawed in Accra by 1 January 2...
Arusha News
Ngorongoro cattle killed by drought
According to estimates by local government officers over 100,000 cattle out of a total of about 380,00 had died by the end of November 2009 in the Ngorongoro region as a result of the prolonged drough...
Arusha News
Just before Christmas the local Arusha Times was wondering what might have happened to the 400 or so hippos that inhabited Lake Babati, a small lake about two hours travel south of the north Tanzanian...
Dar Es Salaam News
Fundraising walk for the environment
Rotarians, representatives of the business and diplomatic communities, ordinary citizens and Tanzania
Accra News
Ghana Innovations Marketplace 2009
Ghanaians are being asked to come up with innovative solutions for managing solid urban waste under a competition sponsored by the World Bank.
Ghana Innovations Marketplace (GIM) 2009 aims to attr...
