Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The Congolese government is to build 300 houses at Mpila, in north-east of Brazzaville, the capital, where ammunition explosions took place on 4 March, 2012, according to the Congolese Minister of Territory Planning, Jean Jacques Bouya. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan and former US President Bill Clinton arrived in Nigeria's economic nerve centre of Lagos Thursday for the dedication of the new 5-million-square-metre Eko Atlantic City. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has written to Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure enforcement of the ruling by the ECOWAS Court of Justice in a case related to oil pollution in the Niger Delta. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Environment Ministers have gathered in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, to discuss the state of the world's environment, amid worries over the intensified poaching of elephants, rhinos and illegal trade in wildlife. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan was on Monday elected chair of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Governing Council. Full text...

Lome, Togo (PANA) – Togo on Saturday launched a four-year project for an integrated management of disasters and lands. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The Spanish Ambassador to Congo, Antonio de Maxarambroz Bernabeu, on Friday announced that the Spanish private company, Toxa, which specializes in forest management, will help Congo manage its forests, PANA learnt here from the Congolese ministry of Forestry and Sustainable Development. Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat and the East African Development Bank (EADB) have signed a partnership agreement to establish a regional collaboration centre in Kampala, Uganda, in an effort to increase participation in clean development mechanism (CDM) projects. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Heavy rains which started on Tuesday evening, pounding the length and breadth of Mauritius, has virtually crippled the Island nation, according to a PANA Correspondent here. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Experts from 19 African countries on Tuesday began a three-day Pan- African conference aimed at taking stock of the sustainable management of land resources and the protection of natural forests and ensure sustainable fisheries, official sources in Kigali told PANA. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN on Monday launched the International Year of Water Cooperation, which seeks to provide a platform for countries to collaborate in the management of this precious resource in the interest of peace and development. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Republic of Chad has ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), becoming the 159th State to do so, a UN statement said on Monday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - US Department of the Interior Deputy Secretary David J. Hayes has cautioned Tanzania’s wildlife management authorities about the sharp rise in illegal wildlife poaching across the country. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - In a landmark ruling, a court in Western Cape, South Africa, has convicted and sentenced a man for killing a Great White shark. Full text...

Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) - Nobel Peace Prize winner and Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, on Wednesday warned that economic losses, due to poor water and sanitation access globally, are costing US$ 260 billion every year. Full text...

Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Gabonese Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Gabriel Tchango announced Tuesday in Libreville the creation of 43 Gabonese small forest enterprises involved in a Central Africa’s large project for sustainable management of forests and poverty reduction. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The death toll in the flooding that has ravaged South Africa's Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces as well as neighbouring Mozambique has risen to 69 by Tuesday, as relief efforts continue. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN General Assembly Wednesday in New York established an “open working group” consisting of 30 countries from the various regions to advance action to implement a Rio+20 recommendation to develop a set sustainable development goals. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - 'Your Street Challenge', an initiative to improve the condition of streets around the world, is coming to Cape Town this weekend to coincide with the city’s Design Indaba. Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - A report released Tuesday by Greenpeace warns of an enormous increase in the impact on the global atmosphere resulting from the fossil fuel industry, which is planning 14 massive coal, oil and gas projects that would raise global carbon dioxide (CO2) emission from fossil fuels by 20 percent in 2020. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has called on the national security machinery to help the wildlife body to deal effectively with the growing poaching in the East African nation. Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - The Botswana meteorological services department Wednesday said the northern and western parts of the country could get ''above-normal rainfall'' during the January to March 2013 period. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's Wildlife Services (KWS) has linked the upsurge in elephant poaching to international cartels waiting for the outcome of the upcoming global meeting on the conservation of endangered species. Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambia’ Minister of Forestry and Environment Fatou Ndeye Gaye said Thursday that the country needs to reduce its vulnerability to climate change by strengthening climate change adaptive capacity and the willingness to face the challenges of this global threat. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Raging fire, fuelled by a strong wind, left thousands of people homeless and forced planned celebrations to be cancelled in Cape Town, South Africa, on New Year's eve. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The death of four youngsters on Saturday night brings to 14 the number of people killed by landslide in western Kenya over the last two days. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Computer maker Hewlett Packard (HP) has established an electronic waste processing plant to deal with Kenya’s 3,000 tonnes of e-waste, including computer parts and mobile phone devices from other electronic companies in Africa, its top environmental executive said Friday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Tanzania has withdrawn an application for the right to sell 100 tonnes of ivory stockpiles to Japan and China, in what conservationists feared could re-ignite fresh poaching of endangered elephants. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The United Nations General Assembly has declared 21 March as International Day of Forests. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – A validatory workshop on a new project geared towards ''Enhancing resources of coastal areas and countries to climate change'', Wednesday got underway in The Gambia, PANA reported, quoting official sources. Full text...

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - Matthew Cassetta, currently the cultural affairs officer at the U.S. Mission to the European Union, has been appointed as the next facilitator of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP). Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Africa needs strengthened partnership within its youth organisations to implement Millennium Development Goals-based projects that are now threatened by climate change, the Coordinator of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), Mr Mithika Mwenda, said in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Amnesty International Saturday hailed the ECOWAS Court's ruling which found the Nigerian government and multinational corporations responsible for years of pollution in the Niger Delta. Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana has set up a web-based environmental Information System (EIS), as part of government’s commitment toward making environmental information accessible to planners, the public and decision makers. Full text...

Malanje, Angola (PANA) - Angolan authorities have expressed their satisfaction with the ongoing project to protect the extinction-threatened giant sable antelope in the Kangandala National Park, Angola’s northern Malanje province. Full text...

Doha, Qatar (PANA) – The UN Climate Change secretariat has called on countries to swiftly implement what has been agreed in Doha so that the world can stay below the internationally agreed maximum two degrees Celsius temperature rise. Full text...

Doha, Qatar (PANA) – The two-week UN Climate Change Conference ended here Saturday night, agreeing on an eight-year second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, the only international-legally-binding instruction, but with no consensus on climate finance for developing countries and real cuts in emission targets. Full text...

Doha, Qatar (PANA) – President of the 18th session of the Conference of Parties (COP 18), Abdullah Bin Al-Attiyah, early Saturday urged government ministers and heads of delegations in Doha to come to a conclusion with a balanced package as the two-week climate talks scheduled to end Friday, dragged on into Saturday. Full text...

Doha, Qatar (PANA) – As negotiators meet Friday in Doha, Qatar, the final day of the UN climate change conference, ministers from developed countries have been urged to bring trust into the negotiations by committing US$ 60 billion in public finance for climate to developing countries to be made available by 2015. Full text...

Doha, Qatar (PANA) – With only a few hours remaining before the UN climate negotiations concludes in Doha, Qatar, some hundreds of campaigners on Friday called on countries to reject the draft text, PANA reported. Full text...

Doha, Qatar (PANA) - A new report by the African Development Bank (AfDB), in collaboration with Vivid Economics, has made concrete proposals that will facilitate access by African countries to the Green Climate Fund. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Africa's top negotiator, Emmanuel Dlamini, has warned that failure to strike a clear treaty to govern future of climate change action around the world will result into a permanent loss of credibility. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian government’s failure to produce promised funding to address the worst lead poisoning outbreak in modern history is leaving thousands of children to die or face life-long disability, the Nigerian Youth Climate Action Network (NYCAN) and Human Rights Watch said here Thursday. Full text...

Doha, Qatar (PANA) - The UN Climate Change Secretariat, in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation, has launched a new initiative to recognise the critical role of women in fighting climate change. Full text...

Doha, Qatar (PANA) - The failure of developed countries to commit themselves to providing mid-term assistance to developing countries for climate change remains a crunch issue in Doha, with civil society groups Thursday calling on Qatar - which holds the presidency of the 18th Conference of Parties (COP 18) - to provide leadership and inject energy into the negotiations. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Award-winning MediaGlobal News, an independent news organisation based at the UN headquarters in New York, Thursday announced the online launch of UNEARTH News, a new and distinct voice reporting on the human dimensions of climate change, and its impact on developing countries. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Representatives of the African civil society groups coalescing under the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) at the climate talks in Doha, Qatar, have asked the European Union (EU) member states to allocate at least 25 percent of Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) revenues to climate finance, especially targeting critically needed adaptation funding. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN-AU peace keeping mission in Darfur said it has launched numersous water projects in Darfur, where nomads and farmers have been fighting intermittently for decades over water sources and grazing lands. Full text...

Doha, Qatar (PANA) - African Union Commissioner in charge of Rural Economy and Agriculture Rhoda Peace Tumusiime has expressed doubts over whether developed countries now in Qatar for the international climate change negotiations will commit funds for climate change, as pledged three years ago in Copenhagen, Denmark. Full text...

Doha, Qatar (PANA) - In its effort to address the challenges of climate change, Qatar has signed a pact with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) to establish a global forum for an alliance of countries committed to tackling climate change challenges. Full text...