Source - Africa South of Sahara

Southern Africa: knowledge network for sustainable sanitation launched

08 Jan 10

The Ecological Sanitation Research group (EcoSanRes) at Stockholm Environment Institute has launched the Southern Africa knowledge node on sustainable sanitation (SAKNSS).

West Africa: stopping cholera emergencies

11 Nov 09

Researchers say knowing the drivers behind behaviour and tying hygiene messages to those impulses is crucial for preventing cholera, which has become a recurring health emergency in West Africa. Sustainable change depends on making sure people practice things so that they become habits,

Tanzania: Unicef, Govt launch national hygiene campaign

11 Nov 09

A national campaign to improve hygiene and sanitation in Tanzania was launched in Dar es Salaam on 3 November 2009. Duing the campaign people are required to send photographs of the kind of toilets available or being used in the community, old toilets, filthy ones and the cleanest or new toilets.

Kenya: water ministry has lost millions

11 Nov 09

The Water ministry may have lost millions of shillings through unexplained payments to water drilling contractors. The ministry is hard put to explain the debts, which now exceed US$ 13 million and is suspected to have been lost at the National Water and Pipeline Corporation.

Swaziland: many boreholes, no water

11 Nov 09

In Swaziland over 3,000 boreholes have been drilled in the country since 1986, but over 40 per cent of the population have no access to clean water and about 90 percent of the community water projects are not functioning.

South Africa, Johannesburg: Phiri residents lose court battle

30 Oct 09

The South African water rights case (in which Phiri residents challenged the use of prepaid meters in the free basic water policy) has after five years finally ended with the country's Constitutional Court coming down squarely on the side of government and the City of Johannesburg.