Health and Environment

Waste & Recycling

SOUTH AFRICA: Cartoon Network raises awareness of e-waste management during holidays

Waste & Recycling

Ivory Coast steps up the pace of the circular economy with an innovation laboratory

Drinking water

Water-borne diseases: UNICEF strengthens Libya’s water treatment system

Sustainable development and CSR

Sustainable innovation: Breega launches $75 million fund to finance start-ups

Collective sanitation

Sanitation governance: scaling up initiatives in Senegal

Waste & Recycling

ALGERIA: 2 wilayas to recycle 500,000 tonnes of organic waste a year

Climate policy

TotalEnergies sued for “its contribution to climate change

Collective sanitation

NIGERIA: $4m from Usaid and Coca-Cola to improve management of used plastics

Industrial Impacts

NIGER: Chinese gold mines closed after the death of around fifty animals

Waste & Recycling

Metal waste recovery: Alucop inaugurates a new plant in Morocco

Biodiversity

Rampant threat: climate crisis is accelerating the proliferation of venomous snakes

Environmental policy

Global treaty against plastic pollution: no significant progress in Ottawa

Preservation of the resource

IVORY COAST: agro-industrialist Adam condemned for polluting waterways in the country

Health and Environment

ODD8: how climate change affects 70% of the world’s workers

Climate change

World Earth Day celebrated in unprecedented heatwave in the Sahel

Waste & Recycling

MOROCCO: €648m to be committed to the circular economy of waste in six cities

Collective sanitation

SOUTH AFRICA: Interwaste inaugurates the 1st leachate treatment plant in Delmas

Industrial Impacts

Ivory Coast: water pollution from illegal gold mining reaches 80% mark

Flood and drought risk

LIBYA: after storm Daniel, reconstruction will cost $1.8 billion

Health and Environment

EAST AFRICA: cholera takes root, with 3,000 deaths by 2023, UNICEF warns