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The Community Water and Sanitation Access Project (PCAEA) launched in 2018 by the municipality of Nouakchott and European cities is starting to bear fruit in Mauritania. A 21 km drinking water network to supply 95,000 inhabitants of the Toujounine commune has just been inaugurated.

Senegalese Prime Minister Amadou Ba has just inaugurated a 50 km freshwater transfer system in the West African country. The new system transports water from the town of Sadio to Mbacké, both in central-western Senegal

Malaba and Malakisi are the two Kenyan towns benefiting from the "Malaba water supply project at the Malakisi treatment plant". The facilities built under this project were inaugurated on January 21, 2024 by the President of the Republic of Kenya, William Samoei Ruto. They provide 173,624 people with drinking water.

In Algeria, work is finally starting on the green dam megaproject, which was officially launched in June 1970 by the second Algerian president, Houari Boumediene. The mega-project aims to reforest 1 million hectares of steppe between the wilayas of El Naâma and Tébessa.

In the Congo, the government has approved the extension of the Conkouati-Douli national park towards the Atlantic Ocean. This decision will strengthen the conservation of marine fauna, in particular marine turtles, dolphins and humpback whales.

In Ivory Coast, the "drinking water" component of the second phase of the government's Social Programme (PSgouv 2) has been launched. This stage of the programme will see the construction of 2,200 boreholes equipped with human-powered pumps in 17 of the country's 31 regions.

The 2023 report on the development goals (SDGs) in Africa notes that the proportion of people living in shanty towns has fallen. This is an indicator of the continent's progress on SDG11, which concerns sustainable cities and communities.

The government of Benin and the public utility company Omilayé are jointly launching the "One household, one tap" promotional campaign to improve the supply of drinking water to people in eight departments. An average of 20,000 social connections will be made in rural areas as part of this initiative over the next four years.

A recent study published in the journal Nature on 10 April 2024 provides encouraging news for biodiversity conservation in the Congo Basin. Led by Utrecht University in the Netherlands, with the support of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the research highlights the positive impact of...