Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenyan government has introduced tough new laws to curb industrial pollution in the country, Environment Minister Newton Kulundu said Monday. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- The Dutch government has given Mali 7 billion francs CFA to help clean areas of Bamako badly polluted by industrial waste, the ministry of environment said in a statement. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The World Bank on Monday said it was engaged in feasibility studies for a $30-billion so-called Marine Electronic Highway to monitor the elimination of oceanic oil spills and marine pollution across the lower parts of the Indian ocean. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Legislation aimed at reducing pollution caused by plastic bags in South Africa went into effect on Friday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Researchers have found that noise pollution in several parts of downturn Nairobi were in excess of the desirable levels conducive for business, the well being and good health of its residents. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Emotions ran high in Parliament here Thursday between the opposition DTA/UDF Coalition and the ruling Swapo when an opposition MP raised environmental questions about a 100-million dollar textile factory in Namibia. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius has approved a plan to protect its territorial waters from the risks of pollution, Rajesh Bhagwan, Mauritius environment minister, told PANA. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- A 150-metre oil sleek has been floating in Mahebourg Lagoon in southern Mauritius, according to an environment ministry official in Port Louis on Thursday. Full text...

Mbabane- Swaziland (PANA) -- The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) is to despatch experts next month to assess the situation in Swaziland in the wake of reports that some manufacturing companies were dumping waste into main rivers in the tiny southern African kingdom, Mbabane sources confirmed Friday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Environmental Affairs and Tourism Deputy Minister Rejoice Mabudafhasi Wednesday stressed the importance of science education in the empowerment of students, saying that "scientifically trained people are intrinsically equipped for learning from experience. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- About fifty environmental experts from Mauritania, as well as West African and Maghrebi countries are meeting here to draw up an inventory of persistent organic pollutants in Mauritania and the sub-region. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- To prevent an ecological disaster similar to the one caused by the "Prestige" oil tanker in neighbouring Spain, Morocco has tightened regulations guiding the passage of such vessels within its exclusive economic zone. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has approved 498,000 US dollars for Nigeria to implement the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), the Minister of State for Environment Imeh Okopido, said. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The local NGO, MAUDESCO (Mauritius council for development environmental studies and conservation) said Tuesday that ten years after Rio and despite hundreds of seminars and conferences already held, the world is more than ever polluted. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A vast blanket of pollution stretching across South Asia is damaging agriculture, modifying rainfall patterns, including those of the mighty Monsoon, and putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk, according to a study commissioned by UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- An environmental pollution control Centre was inaugurated Wednesday in Yaounde, as part of activities to mark the World Environment Day in Cameroon. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius is suffering from serious air pollution traced to crushing, smoke from cars, industrial activities and refuse-incinerating plants, according to Environment Minister Rajesh Bhagwan. Full text...

Cairo- Egypt (PANA) -- Egyptians are too involved in their work and social activities or simply enmeshed in poverty to care about environmental issues. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Mary Metcalfe, Local Minister of Agriculture, Conservation, Environment and Land Affairs in South Africa's Gauteng Province, has outlined priorities for the 2002-2003 financial year with minimisation of air, water and soil pollution high on her agenda. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algeria will soon launch a 971 million US dollar programme aimed at improving the country's environmental situation, the minister of the environment Cherif Rahmani told a seminar in Algiers Sunday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Decision makers in cleaner production and sustainable consumption from 16 African countries will meet this week in Arusha, Tanzania, to prepare a regional input for the forthcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Vegetables contaminated with polluted water of River Kaduna in northern Nigeria may have spread across the country, posing a serious threat to the consumers' health, Environment Minister Kabir Sa'id has said. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- About 40 percent of the estimated 120,000 vehicles in Ethiopia have done an average of more than 16 years on the road, resulting in an increase in greenhouse gas emissions, a study has revealed. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopia's transport sector has been identified as one of the major contributors to green house gas emissions (GHE), according to a study released in Addis Ababa. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- There is no waste management policy at the federal or regional levels, even though there have been some activities to control the problem of waste in the country especially in Addis Ababa, the problem still persists, health officials conceded. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Health authorities in the Zimbabwe capital, Harare, said Wednesday air pollution in the city had exceeded World Health Organisation recommended levels by 400 percent. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin's Environment, Housing and Town Planning Ministry will organise, with other concerned services, a two-week campaign on air pollution starting Wednesday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The Secretary General of the East African Community (EAC), Amanya Mushega Monday called for a regional initiative to stem environmental pollution at Lake Victoria. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Municipal authorities in Zimbabwe's capital Harare Thursday introduced stringent environmental pollution checks, and stiffer penalties for offenders. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopia has created teams charged with the promotion of environmentally friendly industrial activities in the country. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's environmental council has threatened to close about 67 industrial firms in the northern mining Copperbelt Province for allegedly polluting the Kafue river without discharge water licenses. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algeria's national electricity and gas company intends to use helicopters in order to speed up the cleaning of power transmission cables covered with pollutants. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) Wednesday displayed several pollution-control equipment it recently acquired at 16 million Kenyan shillings (1 US dollar = 78 Ksh). Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The elimination of lead in petrol consumed in cities is the central focus of a three-day anti- pollution meeting which winds up Thursday in Dakar. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A regional conference on the elimination of lead-contaminated petrol in sub-Saharan Africa will open next Tuesday in Dakar, the Senegalese News Agency (APS) reported on Thursday. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Some 40 experts from 14 Francophone sub-Saharan African countries open a sub-regional workshop Thursday in Yaounde on the catalytic roles of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in the implementation of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP). Full text...

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Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- UNDP announced Sunday that it was supporting an initiative to clean up the Athi River basin in the Nairobi area and other nearby rivers. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The survival of fisheries and the marine eco-system around Kenya's Mombasa port is threatened by the discharge of litter and untreated sewage directly into the open Indian Ocean by industries and homes. Full text...