Officials say all 40 persons reported missing from the deadly Solai dam incident have been accounted for.The European Union is giving $1.8m in emergency aid to help families affected by the deadly

Kenya's woes have just increased after a dam burst in Nakuru on Wednesday evening.

South African gold producers have reached a settlement with lawyers representing thousands of miners who contracted fatal lung disease, in the country's largest-ever class action suit.

Nigeria's capital is one of the most highly modernised cities in Africa.

The island of Saint Louis in Senegal was listed in 2000 as a UNESCO World Heritage site, but it has since fallen into disrepair.

Afghanistan’s water crisis is one of the acutest in Asia. Less than a third of the country's population has access to clean drinking water.

The world is facing a water crisis, highlighting a big gap in access to clean water and sanitation between the wealthy and economically disadvantaged, according to a WaterAid study.

More than half of Kenya's population only have access to unsafe drinking water from ponds, shallow wells and rivers.

People in Cape Town may be forced to turn off their taps in July - because of an unprecedented drought in South Africa.

Lake Chad in Central Africa provides water to around 30 million people in four neighbouring countries, but it has lost 90 percent of its surface area in the last 100 years.