Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane says her department is working on completing a comprehensive water plan for South Africa with the aim of managing the country's scarce resource.

There is increasing concern that a weather event in the Pacific will bring bitter winter conditions to the UK and northern Europe.

Jos — The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is to conduct quality tests on table water factories in Plateau State and all over the country to ensure compliance w

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria has ramped up its fight against water privatization in Lagos State by taking its campaign to the United States Congress.

Residents of Nyabihu and Musanze districts have expressed optimism after a project designed to mitigate climate change and curb disasters stareted bearing fruit.

An environmental lobby has joined efforts with Kisumu residents to plant more than 70,000 tree seedlings along the River Nyando.

Guinea and Sierra Leone have reported 35 new Ebola cases in the past week, four times as many as the week before, providing a reminder that the virus "will not go quietly", a top World Health Organ

Abuja — Nigeria is one of eight African countries where clinical trials of a vaccine for the Ebola virus disease will soon commence.

A US hunter who paid $350,000 (£225,000) to kill a black rhino in Namibia has successfully shot the animal, saying his actions would help protect the critically endangered species.

Zambia has lifted the ban on the hunting of leopards and will allow lion hunting next year after it established that the population of the big cats was higher than previously thought, its tourism m