In west and central Africa, heavy rains and flooding show climate change is another thumb on a scale already weighed down by ...

The floods – the most devastating in recent years with unprecedented scale and severity – have mainly affected Cameroon, Chad, Guinea, Mali, Niger and Nigeria, and displaced more than 500 000 people, ...

Water and Sanitation Deputy Minister Sello Seitlholo will today assess the conditions of water and waste water treatment ...

These climate events are becoming more frequent and severe due to the climate crisis, leading to spiralling cases of water- and vector-borne diseases like malaria, cholera and diarrhoea. With a recent ...

Floods that killed more than 1,000 people this year across Africa’s Sahel region will become a regular occurrence because of climate change, according to scientists collaborating under the World ...

Water in Zimbabwe needs to be managed at a local level, so that communities have a say in their own water supply. First, the ...

Opinion - The Federal Environmental Protection Agency (FEPA) is charged with the overall responsibility of protecting and developing the Nigerian environment. Established by Decree 55 of December 30, ...

More than five million Nigerians have been displaced by floods between 2012 and 2022. However, a vast majority of this large number of ...

Importantly, the emergence of other potential public health crises—such as cholera, monkey pox, hypertension, and diabetes—increases the urgency of ending the long-standing battle against polio. This ...

Test tubes about mpox virus are seen in this illustration taken on May 23, 2022. [Photo/Agencies] Concern is growing over the ...

Some weeks Laja is doing outreach, spending her day educating a community about which vaccines she can provide and what ...

No fewer than five million Nigerians have been displaced by flooding in about a decade. Data by the Office for Strategic Preparedness ...