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Bayelsa community suffers water shortage after crude oil spill from Shell facility

The people of Obololi Community in the Tarakiri clan of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area in Bayelsa State are appealing for portable water and...

German President Steinmeier warns of conflicts over water shortages

The world faces a growing risk of interstate conflicts as water becomes scarcer due to climate change, German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, warned on Friday,...

Acute water shortage: Any hope for Sabongida community?

In faraway New York in 2019, then Plateau governor, Simon Lalong, made one of the speeches that was expected to define his tenure as...

Lagos tasks stakeholders on better approach to water shortage

The Managing Director, Lagos Water Corporation (LWC), Muminu Badmus, has urged stakeholders and government at all levels to approach the problem of water shortage...

Nations urged to double efforts to save Lake Chad, curb migration

Countries in the Lake Chad region have been enjoined to double efforts to save the dwindling water body that is aggravating environmental degradation and...

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...

Privatisation not solution to lack of access to water, says forum

The Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) organised a Water Summit with the theme: Connecting Local Outrage to Global Resistance of...

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Can Africa re-imagine climate justice by breaking free from green capitalism trap?

In Hamouchene’s "Green Colonialism and Environmental Orientalism", the author critiques how green capitalism, under the banner of a “just...
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Nigeria, Turkey to ensure safe return of endangered baby gorrilla

The Federal Government of Nigeria says it will partner with relevant Turkish authorities to ensure that the endangered baby...

Management agency vows to uphold biosafety standards

Director-General of the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr Agnes Asagbra, has reaffirmed the agency’s commitment to upholding biosafety...

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Can Africa re-imagine climate justice by breaking free from green capitalism trap?

In Hamouchene’s "Green Colonialism and Environmental Orientalism", the author...

Nigeria, Turkey to ensure safe return of endangered baby gorrilla

The Federal Government of Nigeria says it will partner...