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African rivers are polluted by the development of the textile industry on the continent. It is NGO Water Witness who sounded the alarm in a report published on August 17 and which is based on case studies in Tanzania, Ethiopia, Madagascar and Lesotho. Wastewater emissions are the most important source of pollution in the…

Much of Libya has been deprived of drinking water since Saturday, August 14. An armed group broke into the country's main supply center and demanded the release of Abdallah al-Senoussi, Muammar Gaddafi's brother-in-law and senior official of the former regime. The authority of the great artificial river - Gaddafi's flagship…

On Thursday, July 8, the UN pressured Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to resume negotiations on the great renaissance dam on the Nile, under the leadership of the African Union. Egypt would have liked the UN Security Council to address the issue, but the fifteen members unanimously invited them to reconsider concessions in order to resolve the situation as quickly as possible.…

More than 150 people became ill after swimming in the sea on Sunday, in Ténès, on the Mediterranean coast, 200 kilometers west of Algiers. Many families had gathered on Sunday 4 July on the beach in Ténès on the Mediterranean coast for the opening of the summer season. By the end of the afternoon, dozens of swimmers began…

The Arab League's foreign ministers gathered in Doha, Qatar on Tuesday for an extraordinary summit. In addition to the summit, a meeting was held, at the request of Sudan and Egypt, on the great Ethiopian Renaissance dam, the second filling phase of which will begin next month. And the member states have spoken unanimously in support of Khartoum and Cairo and for UN intervention.…

This Tuesday, June 15, an extraordinary summit with the Foreign Ministers of the Arab League dedicated to the Great Pond of the Ethiopian Renaissance will be held in Doha, Qatar. Sudan and Egypt want to warn of the "risk" that Ethiopia's unilateral measures pose to the region, while talks have stopped. It was Sudan and Egypt…

Ten days after the outbreak of Nyiragongo, the consequences are very important. Infrastructure repairs have begun in Goma and alternative solutions are being found, but their rehabilitation is likely to take a long time, as refugees are gradually returning to their city. Work is underway to at least partially restore the water…

In Burkina Faso, subscribers to the National Water and Sanitation Office are angry. For several months, they have received very high consumer bills that they still do not understand. The waterworks rejects all responsibility. However, some subscribers have received invoices of up to one million CFA francs. The government had contacted this water company to review its billing system, but the situation…

The failure, on Tuesday, April 6, of a three-day conversation in Kinshasa about the Ethiopian mega-hydroelectric dam built on a tributary of the Nile, weighs on the climate in the region. As the second phase of tank filling approaches, the positions seem further apart than ever. Sudanese negotiators left Kinshasa very angry.…

The ministerial meeting on the Renaissance dam officially opened on Sunday, April 4, in Kinshasa. The Ethiopian, Sudanese and Egyptian foreign ministers made the trip to the Congolese capital. They hope to move forward towards resolving the conflict as a result of the Ethiopians' construction of this dam on the Nile. On the Congolese side, we hope that this meeting will be the starting point for the…