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Nigeria: water education through posters and flyers

17 Mar 10

Water Initiatives Nigeria (WIN), a NGO, organizes an activity called Water Education. Posters and flyers will be published along with water facts and figures and information about appropriate sanitation.

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Ghana: World Water Day celebration and Green Schools project

17 Mar 10

The National Planning Committee of this year's World Water Day celebration in Ghana on the theme Clean Water for a Healthy World is organizing various programmes and activities as part of the celebration. And Green Cross International, together with Pureology Serious Colour Care, has launched the Smart Water for Green Schools project to encourage exchanges between schools in the same river basins.

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Cameroon: Bring clean water to rural communities

16 Mar 10

Advocacy day and workshop to make known the importance of clean water and sanitation in rural Cameroon and especially to children.

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Ghana Blogging Water Action Day

16 Mar 10

A series of blog posts around water issues by Ghana Blogging.

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Zimbabwe: did the United Nations ignore the 2008 cholera outbreak to please Harare?

05 Mar 10

Former head of the Zimbabwe branch of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) claims his warnings of a catastrophic cholera outbreak were stifled by a UN bureaucracy intent on keeping good relations with Zimbabwe’s dictator, Robert Mugabe.

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Ghana, Accra: use of pan latrines outlawed

05 Mar 10

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) says effective January 1, 2010, the use of pan latrines in the metropolis has been outlawed. As of this date as many as 5,294 households were still using this type of facility.

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Kenya, Nyanza Province: UN-HABITAT and Government of Italy join hands in schools’ sanitation

04 Mar 10

A partnership between UN-HABITAT and the Government of Italy will provide clean water and better sanitation facilities to over 15,000 pupils in Kenya through the construction of rainwater harvesting tanks and latrines and by supporting the creation of School Health Clubs.

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Uganda: Guardian uses multimedia to show how aid works

04 Mar 10

For three years the Guardian newspaper, in partnership with the Panos Institute and Barclays bank, has been tracking an Amref/Farm-Africa project to improve the lives of the 25,000 people in Katine sub-county in Uganda.

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Tanzania: water and sewerage authority ranks high in corruption “list of shame”

20 Jan 10

The Tanzanian water and sewerage authority ranks fifth in the corruption ‘List of Shame” published by the regional NGO Concern for Development Initiatives in Africa (ForDIA).

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Africa: ministers agree key steps forward from Johannesburg

08 Jan 10

African Ministers of Water will in the first quarter of 2010 meet with their colleague Ministers of Finance to review achievements of the 2nd Africa Water Week and to mobilise resources for the second and third phase of implementation of the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Initiative (RWSSI).

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