Environment
Cape Town News
Cape Town Bike festival cancelled
The Cape Town Bike Festival (CTBF), scheduled to take place at the Cape Town Stadium from 16-18 December, has been cancelled due insufficient sponsorship and poor ticket sales.
The CTBF
Cape Town News
Cape Town’s Table Mountain among
Table Mountain was listed among the Seven Wonders of the World by the Swiss-based New7Wonders Foundation on 11 November. The win was the result of a global competition in which hundreds of millions of...
Addis Ababa News
Addis Ababa reports water shortages
The city of Addis Ababa is experiencing acute water shortages at its wells in recent weeks, with power shortages and the end of the rainy season believed to be the cause.
Districts such as Mekete...
Cape Town News
South Africa targets pollution
South Africa is to place limits for carbon emissions on the country
Nairobi News
Relocation of Kenya’s elephants
Kenyan park rangers have begun relocating 50 elephants to the Maasai Mara game reserve from the outskirts of Narok, a town situated some 150 km north-west of the capital Nairobi. Narok has suffered de...
Nairobi News
Funeral of Wangari Maathai in Nairobi
The body of Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai will be cremated at the Kariokor Crematorium and her remains interred at the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies in Nairobi, in a s...
Cape Town News
Shark attacks earlier than usual in Cape Town
A British swimmer, who refused to heed warnings about the presence of sharks, was attacked by a Great White Shark off Fish Heok at the end of September. He was saved after two local men, Hugh Till and...
Dar Es Salaam News
New refuse trucks for Dar es Salaam
Four refuse trucks have been donated to the Kinondoni district in Dar es Salaam by an environmental agency. The vehicles are worth $300,000 and were a gift from the Ecology Protection Company (ECO)....
Cape Town News
A thick oil slick has washed up on a one-kilometre stretch of beach at Blouberg in Cape Town on 3 September. The crude oil had leaked from the Seli 1 bulk-carrier ship which ran aground near Table Bay...
Cape Town News
The city of Cape Town has issued swimmers with shark warnings and has drawn attention to the seasonal increase in the presence of Great White Sharks around in-shore areas along the Western Cape.
T...
Accra News
India to supply Ghana with waste management facilities
India is to donate $10 million worth of waste management equipment to authorities in Ghana to deal with mounting waste and poor sanitary conditions in Accra and other urban areas.
A range of machi...
Lagos News
After prolonged torrential rain on 10 July, Lagos suffered heavy flooding which has led to deaths and much destruction of property. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has described the fl...
Accra News
Experimental bio-diesel refinery for Accra
An experimental project aimed at converting human waste into biodiesel or methane gas is to be tested in Accra. With the help of a $1.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, an envir...
Accra News
The MTN Ghana Foundation, supported by global telecommunications company MTN, is planting 9,000 tree seedlings in Ghana as part of its 21 Days of Y'ello Care programme, from 1-25 June.
The 9,000 t...
Arusha News
A report on the deforestation of the Meru forest reserve due to human activity has been published by Tanzania
Nairobi News
Nairobi National Park under threat
Nairobi National Park could be destroyed as a result of the city
Dar Es Salaam News
Serengeti road debate continues
A debate in Dar es Salaam about the construction of the Serengeti highway aired conflicting opinions between the tourist operators, against the road, and the Maasai and Kurya communities, which suppor...
