Kisumu- Kenya (PANA) -- The World Bank has approved a credit of US$ 35 million to help Kenya promote environmentally-sustainable management of its coastal and ma r ine resources, the bank said in a statement Wednesday. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The ninth meeting of the Committee of Heads of National Meteorological Services from ECOWAS member states opened in Abuja Monday with Minister of Aviation, Fidelia Njeze, tasking directors of meteorological services to evolve appropriate adaptation and mitigation strategies to help combat the negative effect of climate change in the sub-region. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The global rights body, Amnesty International (AI), on Saturday welcomed the guilty verdict by a Dutch court against the multi-national company, Trafigura, for exporting hazardous waste to Cote d'Ivoire, PANA reported from here. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- The Malian government on Tuesday launched a nationwide reforestation campaign aimed to check the rate of the spread of the Sahara desert. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- A greater percentage of Nigeria's ecological fund will be devoted to combating desertification, coastal erosion and land erosion, President Goodluck Jonathan said Tuesday in Abuja, the Nigerian federal capital, according to press release issued by the Presidency. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Are marauding elephants bothering you? No problem. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Since being fingered as one of the countries promoting illegal trade in Ivory, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has vowed to strengthened the struggle against the trade. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Heavy rains that fell Thursday and Friday in the village of Oulou M'boni, Guidimakha region, East-South of Mauritania, 600 kilom e tres from Nouakchott, causing floods and huge material damage, rendered 147 fami l ies homeless, state-owned press agency, AMI disclosed. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- UN agencies on Thursday launched a plan to popula rize the use of space technologies in Africa to help curb climate-change related disasters such as floods, landslides and disease outbreaks. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The layers of ice on Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest point, have changed colour due to the increasing air pollution in Africa, while Tunisia - the continent's northern tip - is increasin gly sinking due to mining activities, satellite images show. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal ( PANA) -- Heavy rains that fell in June on the West and Central Africa resulted in 42 deaths, while over 35,000 victims were rendered homeless, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) revealed in its humanitarian newsletter, sent to PANA. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Gambia is playing host to a sub-regional meeting on disa ster management, convened by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOW A S), PANA reported from here Wednesday. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The Ivorian government has released 1,800 billio n CFA francs to compensate victims of the heavy rains that caused the death of n o fewer than 11 persons and damaged several property in parts of Abidjan, the cap i tal, some days ago, PANA learnt from a reliable source here. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- United Nations aid agencies operating in Ethiopia issued a flood alert for parts of Western and South Western regions of the coun t ry following predictions of above normal rains by the state weather agencies, PA N A reported Monday. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Environment ministers from seven West African coastal countries in Nouakchott Thursday decided to establish a joint planning, monitoring and coordination mechanism between environment and fisheries ministries. Full text...

Kanifing- Gambia (PANA) -- The National Environment Agency (NEA) on Thursday launched the State of the Environment Report (SOER) 2010 and the Gambia Environment Action Plan (GEAP II) 2009 - 2018, PANA reported from here Thursday The report highlighted the emerging environmental challenges and issues for policy makers to evaluate the impact of policy responses on environmental performance in The Gambia. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Besides increasing insecurity in pastoralist border regions, climate change has resulted in unpredictable and extreme weather patterns that influence the mobility of pastoralist communities in the East African region, according to the latest findings by the International Office of Migration (IOM). Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Sub-regional Fisheries Commission (CSPR), an organization comprising seven coastal countries in West Africa, on Tuesday call e d for the protection of the marine biodiversity in the region. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Twenty-two thousand people living in flooded areas of th e suburbs of Dakar, the Senegalese capital, will be relocated to new homes, the S enegalese Prime Minister, Souleymane Ndene Ndiaye, announced at the end of a min i sterial meeting on government measures to tackle the menace of floods in the cou n try. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The fifth West African coastal and marine forum began Monday in Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital, with the country's deputy M i nister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Bأ¢ Housseinou Hamady, in att e ndance. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Tension over the sharing of the Nile waters deepe ned Sunday after Sudan practically sought the freezing of all Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) projects to protest the signing of a new Treaty that allows countries upstream to use the Nile Waters. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopian Water Minister, Asfaw Dingamo, on Satur day urged Egypt and Sudan to soften their hard line position against a new Nile T reaty which allows the other countries sharing the Nile waters to use it for eco n omic activities. Full text...

Banjul - Gambia (PANA) â" A sub--regional training on strategic environmental as sessment (SEA) organised by the National Environmental Agency (NEA) opened in Ba n jul, The Gambia, on Wednesday. Full text...

Banjul - Gambia (PANA) â" A sub--regional training on strategic environmental as sessment (SEA) organised by the National Environmental Agency (NEA) opened in Ba n jul, The Gambia, on Wednesday. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The death toll in Sunday's floods in southern Ghana has continued to rise, with the total count reaching 14, following the confirmation of three more deaths in a town in the Central Region, as rescue operations continued on Monday. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- The Torrential rains of early Sunday in Lome have led to a serious flooding in parts of the Togolese capital, preventing inhabitants from attending to their daily chores, PANA reported from here. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Heavy rains in southern Ghana on Sunday wreaked havoc in t he south of the country with several regions sending out distress messages to th e National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) and the military for help. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Cote d'Ivoire has set up a laboratory, built and equipped with assistance from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in its effort to combat environmental pollution, PANA learnt from the Ministry for Environment and Forestry. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon has called for more acti on to combat desertification and land degradation. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan national commission for desertification and the L ibyan centre for biology researches on Thursday celebrated the international day for desertification. Full text...

Bonn- Germany (PANA) -- As climate talks in Bonn, Germany, ended Friday, some parties criticized the new draft text document, saying it was "imbalanced" and leaves out many important points submitted by developing countries which were in the old text. Full text...

Bonn- Germany (PANA) -- The UN Climate Change Talks ended here Friday with important progress towards concluding what was left incomplete at the last UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, last December. Full text...

Bonn- Germany (PANA) -- Civil society groups attending a meeting on climate change in Bonn, Germany, have expressed disappointment that Saudi Arabia had blocked a review on the discussion of limiting temperature rise to 1. Full text...

Bonn- Germany (PANA) -- As the World Cup draws near, even international delegates gathered in Bonn, Germany, are all in the mood for soccer as evidenced by remarks made here by the UN top climate change official, Yvo de Boer, who warned the meeting on Wednesday that "we got a yellow card in Copenhagen and the referee's hand will edge toward the red one if we fail to deliver in Cancun (Mexico) and beyond". Full text...

Bonn- Germany (PANA) -- Outgoing United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer, on Wednesday sounded a warning at a meeting here on climate change, that there was a gap between current commitments to cut emissions and what was needed to keep global temperature below two degrees. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- The Angolan deputy minister of environment, Syanga Abilio, on Tuesday stressed that environmental auditing is as an important instrument of management tor prevent environment-related damages in the country. Full text...

Bonn- Germany (PANA) -- The UN Climate Change Conference in Mexico (COP 16), scheduled for December in Cancun, will likely not come up with a single treaty, the in-coming presidency for COP 16, Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba of Mexico, told reporters here Tuesday. Full text...

Bonn - Germany (PANA) -- The UN climate change negotiations taking place in Bonn, Germany, entered its second week Monday faced with the challenge to find a middle ground on the financial mechanism to be used to kick start climate change action in developing countries. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopia could earn US$1. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian government has decided to establ ish a National Office for Water Services in Rural Area (ONSER), official sources told PANA Sunday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A report by the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has warned that the industrialized world's p r omise of billions of 'new and additional' dollars to help developing nations tac k le climate change is meaningless without a baseline from which to count new fund s . Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- As millions around the globe celebrate the World Environme nt Day on Saturday, United Nations officials are warning that the incredible var i ety of life on Earth was in peril and urges everyone to speak out to protect bio d iversity. Full text...

Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Mauritian Environment Ministry on Saturday or ganized a rally at the national park here to sensitize the people about the impo r tance of preserving the environment. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The World Food Programme (WFP) and Germany's lead ing promotional bank, Bankengruppe (KfW), agreed Friday to raise money for clima t e change initiatives while promoting fuel-efficient stoves in Ethiopia. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The International Council of Coordination of the Programm e of UNESCO on man and the biosphere (MAB) has designated, for the first time, s i tes in Ethiopia and Zimbabwe to the World Network of Reserves of Biosphere durin g the ongoing 22nd session at the headquarters of the organisation in Paris, Fran c e. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- For the first time, biosphere reserves in Ethiopia and Zim babwe are joining the United Nations network that was created in an attempt to h a lt the loss of biodiversity and promote sustainable development. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- A fresh round of UN Climate Change talks kicked off Mond ay with representatives from 182 governments meeting in Bonn, Germany, to build o n last year's UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP 15). Full text...

New York- US (PANA) --- A US-based scientist says 20 per cent of all lizard speci es worldwide could be extinct by 2080 due to rising temperatures associated with climate change. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Severe climate change will threaten the Mediterranean re gion during the 2080-2099 period with possibilities of annual average temperatur e s rising from 2. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Mauritian Minister for Computer Technology, C hedumbrum Pillay, announced here Thursday the launch of a study on the emission o f carbon dioxide by hardware used by domestic firms. Full text...