Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Residents of Vridi, in the Abidjan port area, have opposed plans by authorities to store the toxic waste dumped last 19 August in the Ivorian metropolis in the commune pending processing and transfer to another destination. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) – A multidisciplinar-y team comprising seven investigators from Cote d'Ivoire was expected to leave Abidjan Monday for Estonia to conduct investigations at the port of Paldiski, where the oil tanker, Probo Koala, which recently dumped toxic waste in Abidjan, is grounded. Full text...

Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Ivorian Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny Sunday led an exercise to remove toxic wastes dumped recently in the capital, Abidjan, by a Russian vessel. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The French Socialist Party (PS), has strongly condemned the dumping of toxic waste in the Ivorian economic capital Abidjan, describing it as "a criminal act". Full text...

Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Pollution from the toxic waste dumped in Abidjan has killed at least one inmate and forced the transfer of a number of prisoners from the city's MACA prison, to the Grand-Bassam, Agboville and Dabou jails, Ivorian Justice Minister Koné Mamadou said here Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) – A new study by the Nairobi--based UN Environment Programme (UNEP) shows a rapid deterioration of air quality in African cities, with air pollution constituting a major threat to the environment, the economy and the populations' quality of life. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Hundreds of flamingos have been reported dead in Kenya's Lake Nakuru wildlife sanctuary in the past week, raising fear and anxiety among wildlife conservation and management personnel and other stakeholders at the national park. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's Water Resources Management Authority on Friday unveiled measures tailored to rehabilitate polluted water sources in the Tana river water catchment area. Full text...

Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - – The spill into the sea of significant quantities of crude oil following an accident Tuesday by a drilling boat near the oil rig of Al Baraka, off Jacqueville (some 100 km from Abidjan), has caused an oil slick on the Abidjan coast. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Kenyan environmentalist and fishermen in the country's coastal town of Malindi, have condemned over-fishing and dumping of waste products in the area. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Namibia's National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) has disagreed with NamWater for alleging that "category C" water supply at Opuwo town in the northern Kunene Region was 'still' fit for human consumption despite large quantity of magnesium and sulphate. Full text...

Douala- Cameroon (PANA) -- A five-day international seminar in the fight against marine pollution by oil products opened Monday in Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- IFC-Netherlands Carbon Facility (INCaF), a joint initiative of the International Finance Corporation and the Dutch government, recently signed an emissions reductions purchase agreement worth approximately $10 million to purchase greenhouse gas emission reductions from renewable energy projects in India. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The African Development Bank (ADB) will grant Morocco a loan of $85 million in support of the environmental upgrading programme of the main supplier of refined petroleum on the market of the North African country. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- The US government has announced a grant of $150,000 towards the promotion of efficient cookstoves in Uganda as part of its worldwide support to the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air, the American embassy said here Tuesday. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Residents of Mozambique's southern city of Matola, which hosts the largest concentration of industries in the country, have accused the national cement company "Cimentos de Mocambique" of polluting the environment. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) is investigating last week's oil spill at the Kenyan Indian Ocean port of Mombasa to advise government on appropriate measures to address adverse after-effects of the spill, environmental authorities confirmed here Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- British environment minister Elliot Morley has warned African countries against the grave consequences of neglecting the pollution of rivers and depletion of forested lands. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) will convene its General Council meeting here Monday to discuss the progress achieved in implementing a set of goals for eradicating global pollution levels, an official source announced Friday. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- The Zimbabwean government Monday dispatched water and health scientists to Gwanda, a small farming town in the south of the country where a derailed train spilled over 40,000 litres of harmful acids into a water supply dam. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Environment minister Kalonzo Musyoka directed importers Monday to consult with his ministry before bringing any type of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) into Kenya. Full text...

Asembo Bay- Kenya (PANA) -- As the boat with the inscription, "Jamadar," and five fishermen on board approaches the shores of Ka Mito beach on the Kenyan end of Lake Victoria, several fish buyers converge, curiosity written all over their faces. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A group of South Africans have embarked on a major campaign to rid the country's beaches of unsightly cigarette butts ahead of the Christmas holidays. Full text...

Kisumu- Kenya (PANA) -- Industries discharging raw wastes into Lake Victoria constitute a real threat to the livelihood of over 30 million people living within its basin due to rising pollution of the fresh water mass, an environmentalist warned here Wednesday. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algeria's environment minister Cherif Rahmani on Monday launched the "polluter pays" Principle adopted as a law last year by installing the first group of 1,000 in the country's enterprises. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin has banned the importing and distribution of unleaded gasoline in the country starting from 1 January 2005, official sources have said According to the sources, licence holders for importing, storing and distribution of petrol products and by-products are required to abide by the ban against unleaded fuel by the announced date. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Sweden will provide 219,000 Euro to finance a project aimed at safeguarding human lives at sea and marine environment in Cape Verde, informed sources told PANA in Praia. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian environment minister Rajesh Bhagwan has decided to take action against factories that ignore regulations on the production of plastic sacs, saying that environmental police will pay regular visits to such firms. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) marked the World Rural Women's Day Friday by drawing attention to indoor air pollution as one of the major causes of death and disease in the world's poorest countries. Full text...

Port Louis- Maurice (PANA) -- The environmental police in Mauritius have launched a campaign against polluting vehicles, mounting checkpoints along the country's roads. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algeria losses on average 3. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Around the world, polluted air and water and other environment-related hazards kill more than three million children under the age of five every year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a new report. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) director general Ratemo Michieka hinted Monday that a law was in the pipeline to guard against oil spillage in Kenya's water bodies. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Ahead of World Environment Day, environmental law enforcers in Kenya on Friday demanded operators of beach tourists resorts in Mombasa to submit their affluent waste disposal methods and environmental risk assessment reports in three months or face court prosecution. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- The Algerian government has approved a 58-million dollar clean up project for the city of Annaba, 500 km east of Algiers. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Five environmental justice activists from the Unites States are on a tour of pollution hotspots in South Africa, media reports said Monday. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- The authorities in Kampala have indicated an imminent ban on the importation of vehicles that pose a threat to the environment. Full text...

Nakuru- Kenya (PANA) -- Environmental and provincial authorities in Kenya's Rift-Valley region warned Saturday that several water masses in the region, including Lake Nakuru, were threatened with extinction due to industrial pollution and massive deforestation in water catchment areas. Full text...

Abomey-Calavi- Benin (PANA) -- About 50 African and European researchers and industrialists started a meeting aimed at finding alternative solutions to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) whose utilisation is banned or restricted by the Stockholm Convention on biological diversity. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African police have arrested a real estate owner for illegally dumping hazardous waste on his property, the first ever pollution-related arrest in South Africa. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin has adopted a national plan to implement the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), official sources said here Friday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Environmental changes, including smog, intense sunlight and declining ski conditions are causing grave concern among sports men and women, indicates an international survey. Full text...

Moroni- Comoros (PANA) -- Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) ministers, who held a two-day meeting here to discuss oil pollution problems around their territorial waters, have decided to set up a regional centre for the co-ordination of the IOC Plan against the problem in Madagascar. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A joint research conducted by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) in Kenya reveals high lead levels in urban areas in both soil and in vegetables, with the higher concentrations linked to lead contamination from motor vehicle fumes. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Morocco and Britain would on 20 October jointly organise a seminar in Casablanca on problems encountered in the collection of waste in urban areas, and on marine pollution, the British embassy in Rabat indicated in a statement Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Clean Up the World (CUW) Campaign and Events manager Hannah Arbeid has denounced the scale of pollution in Nairobi River, insisting on the need to scale up clean-up exercises countrywide. Full text...

Nhlambeni- Swaziland (PANA) -- As the Swazi government continues to relent on enforcing environmental laws, pollution in Swaziland's Lusushwana River have begun to severely affect riparian communities and aquatic plants and animals living in the river. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) countries have been responding quite inadequately to the growing problems of air pollution, Mozambique's environment minister John Kachamila warned in Maputo on Monday. Full text...

N'djamena- Chad (PANA) -- Chadian authorities have drawn a national plan to deal with the accidental spillage of hydrocarbons during oil exploitation, which started 15 July 2003. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The unsightly brown haze hovering over Cape Town predominantly during winter is the focus of the Brown Haze project launched in the city on Monday. Full text...