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  • f National and Government of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR

    ANGOLA, 2014/08/15 Heads of National and Government of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) are due to hold a mini-summit Thursday in the Angolan capital, Luanda, to assess the security situation in DR Congo and the Great Lakes Region as a whole, the organisation's executive secretariat here said Wednesday. A conference of chiefs of defence staff started Tuesday while defence ministers met Wednesday as well in Luanda to prepare for the summit. 'The aim of the mini-summit is to assess the implementation of the decisions of the mini-summit of the ICGLR held in Luanda on 25 March this year,' the secretariat said.

  • Construction of Eight Water Reservoirs Underway in Eritrea

    ERITREA, 2014/06/06 The Agriculture Ministry's branch in Nakfa sub-zone, Northern Red Sea region, indicated that construction of a total of 8 water reservoirs is underway with a view to conference the water request in the locality. Mr. Jabera Mohammed Ali, chief of the branch office, disclosed that availability of such facility would solve the prevailing water shortage in the locality. In connection with a tour she made in the sub-zone, Ms. Tsigereda Woldegiorgis, Administrator of the region, pointed out that commendable efforts are being exerted towards securing additional water supply on the basis of construction of ponds and micro-dams.

  • Zimbabwe’s major inland dam will be drained

    ZIMBABWE, 2014/06/04 Zimbabwe’s major inland dam will be drained to allow the construction of a new wall next the original structure burst before this year. Thousands of people were evacuated and additional than 3 000 villagers along the Tokwe Mukorsi basin left homeless next heavy rains caused the Tokwe-Mukorsi dam to partially collapse early this year. Construction of the new wall is schedule to begin this month. However, the engineers say the dam must be emptied for the wall to be constructed. This has raised concern as the dam water will not be used productively.

  • Africa still lags behind in achieving Water and Sanitation for All MDG

    AFRICA, 2014/05/25 The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation is unlikely to be attained by a lot of African nations as they are still facing a huge infrastructure gap which constrains the continent’s ability to unleash the full potential of its vast water resources. This is according to a new statement that will be released in Kigali on Friday on the sidelines of the annual meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) currently taking place in Kigali. The statement says that Africa’s people is projected to increase from one billion in 2010 to 1.6 billion in 2030, while urban people will increase from 40% of the total people to over 50%, thus is increasing the by presently high unmet request for water.

  • Malawi will receive US $35.5 million to implement its Sustainable Rural Water and Sanitation Infrastructure

    MALAWI, 2014/05/06 Malawi will receive US $35.5 million to implement its Sustainable Rural Water and Sanitation Infrastructure for Improved Health and Livelihoods Project. The project is aligned with the Malawi Increase and Development Strategy and the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) 2013-2017 Country Strategy Paper inclunding the Bank’s Ten-Year strategy focusing on African transformation through inclusive and green increase. The money consists of an African Development Fund (ADF) loan of US $23.0 million, a loan of US $7.7 million from the Nigerian Trust Fund (NTF), and a grant of US $4.8 million from the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Facility.

  • $11 million for potable water in Djibouti

    DJIBOUTI CITY, 2014/05/06 Djibouti has received a US $11 million grant from the European Union (EU) to finance projects aimed at improving access to potable water. The East African country’s water crisis has been the result of extended droughts which have often led to water scarcity. The problem has been aggravated by rapid demographic increase, climate variability refugee inflow. There are presently plans to dig six boreholes equipped with solar panels in six different sites in the country.

  • Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will provide power to Egypt

    EGYPT, 2014/05/06 Ethiopian National Minister for Foreign Affairs Berhane Gebre-Christos told a two-day forum held at Bahr Dar University that the dam, which is being constructed to generate electricity, will not harm Egypt. Instead, it will allow Egypt, which has been suffering from electricity shortages, to obtain electricity from Ethiopia. Because of electricity shortages, Egypt has experienced several power cuts nationwide. The Egyptian government before announced plans to boost the country’s electricity supply by importing natural gas and diesel, inclunding by beginning construction on three new power plants.

  • Trevor Balzer, acting director- general for the Department of Water Affairs.

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2014/05/06 The water sector is experiencing a critical scarce skills shortage, owing to an insufficient skills base and fierce competition in the labour market for skilled personnel, said the Department of Water Affairs (DWA) acting director- general Trevor Balzer. During his address before this month at the Civilution Congress, in Ekurhuleni, he stated that a high retirement figure precipitated a huge loss in institutional memory, which included strategic and operational decision-making capabilities. “An ongoing scarce skills shortage in the water sector is a threat to achieving water and sanitation delivery, conference compliance targets and implementing sustainable water resources management, and the country needs the correct skills to manage waterresources,” he noted.

  • Ethiopia's bold decision to pay for a huge dam

    EGYPT, 2014/04/25 Ethiopia's bold decision to pay for a huge dam itself has overturned generations of Egyptian control over the Nile's waters, and may help transform one of the world's poorest nations into a regional hydropower hub. By spurning an offer from Cairo for help financing the project, Addis Ababa has ensured it controls the construction of the Renaissance Dam on a Nile tributary. The electricity it will generate - enough to power a giant rich-world city like New York - can be exported across a power-hungry region. But the decision to fund the huge project itself as well carries the risk of stifling private sector investment and restricting economic increase, and may jeopardize Ethiopia's dream of becoming a middle gain country by 2025.

  • Japan gives Benin FCFA 60m for water project

    JAPAN, 2014/04/06 Japan will grant Benin 60 million CFA francs to enable the West African country to improve access to drinking water in villages of the commune of Dassa-Zoumè in the central part of the country, PANA learned in Cotonou on Thursday from official sources. This grant will enable Benin to purify the water from a river through a system developed by the Japanese company, Yamaha Motors. The objective is to improve access to drinking water to prevent water-borne diseases due to the consumption of water from the river.
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