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Uganda - Tororo to Fine Homes Without Pit-Latrines
20 Mar 08
THE Tororo district council is to impose a sh50,000 fine on homesteads near schools that lack pit-latrines. The district health and education committee chairperson, Jacinta Ayoo, said about 50% of communities living around schools lacked pit latrines.She said the communities instead use the school pit latrines, which fill up faster and constrain authorities in terms [...]
Ethiopia: Over 14 Million At Risk of Fluorosis - Ministry
20 Mar 08
More than 14 million Ethiopians may be potentially at risk of fluorosis, the Ministry of Water Resources announced at a workshop on Fluorosis Mitigation Learning Exchange held from from 4- 5 March 2008 in Addis Ababa. A recent assessment of Fluoride, Fluorosis and Defluoridation issues reported that, out of those at risk, approximately 85% may [...]
Population, Health and Environment (PHE) East Africa Network
20 Mar 08
The Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) East Africa Network was launched on November 16, 2007, at the Integrated Development for East Africa conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Population Reference Bureau was the lead organizer of the conference and also the facilitating organization for a coalition [...]
Africa bears the brunt of climate change, WWF
20 Mar 08
Nairobi, Kenya – The sparkling glaciers high up in the Rwenzori Mountains—and their crystal-clean mountain streams—may be no more, according to WWF, the global conservation organization. Climate change has taken its toll on some of Africa’s highest peaks; the mountains’ glaciers are on their knees. WWF estimates that the glaciers will completely disappear in the [...]
Opportunities for Sanitation Marketing in Uganda [publication]
20 Mar 08
New publication from the the Hygiene Improvement Project (HIP).Read more on Sanitation Updates.Download the publication here
East Africa Regional Conference: Accelerating Access to Sanitation: Conference Report
20 Mar 08
The East African Regional Conference ‘Accelerating Access to Sanitation’ attracted more than 190 mostly African water and sanitation specialists from 25 countries to discuss these matters at the start of the International Year of Sanitation. The conference was held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 27 - 28 November, 2007.The conference report has been posted on Sanitation [...]
Uganda: ICRC Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program 2008
17 Mar 08
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been actively involved in water supply, sanitation, hygiene and habitat programs in the IDP (internally displaced persons) camps in the four districts of Amuru, Gulu, Kitgum and Pader in Acholiland, Northern Uganda, since the beginning of 2006.In the course of 2008, the ICRC and the [...]
MCC and DFID Sign Agreement to Coordinate Poverty-Reduction Efforts in Africa
17 Mar 08
On Feb., 19, 2008, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) signed a first-of-its-kind Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two organizations which will increase coordination and make their poverty reduction efforts more effective in Africa and throughout the globe.Focusing initially on Africa, the MOU identifies practical areas for [...]
Ethiopia, Somali region: One million people face water shortage: UN
15 Mar 08
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - More than one million people in eastern Ethiopia’s drought-hit Somali region, also known as the Ogaden, face critical water shortages, the UN humanitarian agency OCHA said.The Drought Emergency Response Plan, released by the regional government, focuses on life-saving interventions in health and nutrition, water and sanitation, and livestock and [...]
Kenya: Groups call to protect people, not corporate flower farms
12 Mar 08
Despite violence, corporate flower farms keep up assault on Lake Naivasha people and the environment in a rush to grow and export flowers for Valentine’s Day.Washington DC – Public interest organizations in Canada, Europe, Kenya, and the United States today called on the international community to help the people suffering from violence in the Lake [...]
