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The Dandora municipal waste site east of Nairobi continues to pose environmental and health risks even after a study recommended its closure, said...

Models to predict the impact of climate change on potable water and the management of wastewater are needed to deal with the expected increase in...

The Nigerian Ministry of Health is trying to determine what caused a gastroenteritis outbreak that has claimed 120 lives in northern Nigeria’s Sokoto...

Health officials say air pollution in Benin’s economic capital, Cotonou, is an often-overlooked, undiagnosed killer that is as much of a health...

After years of calling on the owners of South Africa's oil refineries in Durban to upgrade their facilities to reduce pollution, local residents of...

Two years after an illegal toxic dumping operation in the Ivorian capital Abidjan created a widespread medical emergency and political scandal, UN...

A Greenpeace analysis of soil and sediment taken from two electronic waste (e-waste) scrap yards in Ghana has revealed severe contamination with...

Recurrent outbreaks of cholera in the western province of Nyanza are caused by widespread water contamination, including seepage from latrines,...