The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has just released the results of several studies on mangrove forests in West Africa. The results show that Ivory Coast has lost its mangrove forest, the equivalent of 18,000 football fields. The main cause is the smoking of fish.
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African Communities Raise their Voices Against Water Privatisation
Communities impacted and those under threat of water privatization across Africa have called on African governments to jettison water privatisation and return privatized water systems to localities for affordable and equitable management.
COP27: Coca-Cola, a divisive choice of sponsor
Environmentalists do not understand why Egypt, the host country of the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), has chosen the beverage brand Coca-Cola as the event’s sponsor. The American company is said to be the world’s biggest plastic polluter, producing 120 billion disposable plastic bottles per year.
CAMEROUN : le Global Water Partnership apporte sa contribution à la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique
C’est tout le sens de l’atelier sur les changements climatiques et ses répercussions sur l’environnement tenu le 5 octobre 2022 à Yaoundé (Cameroun). l’USFE, entendez » United Voice to Serve Forest and Environment « , vient de bénéficier d’un accompagnement de l’ONG international Global water partnership. Cet atelier vise entre autres à fédérer les efforts de ses partenaires pour faire du Cameroun un pays émergent en 2035.
CAMEROON: Activists fear public water service will be privatized again.
The conditions that prompted Cameroon to privatise the public water service in 2008 are once again multiplying on the ground. Between untimely water cuts, deterioration of installations and bad management practices, the public company (Camwater) which produces and distributes drinking water, is struggling to provide the precious liquid in quantity and quality to an ever-growing population. Fearing a return to another privatisation of the public water service in Cameroon, the African Centre for Advocacy (ACA) calls on the government of Cameroon to take responsibility.
ACA named finalist in the Transformative Cities People’s Choice Award
The African Center for Advocacy (ACA) has been named one of the finalists for the Transformative Cities People’s Choice Award 2021-2022, joining 11 other finalists that are up for votes starting from today (October 6th, 2022) through November 6th, 2022.
EAU POTABLE: ACA est sélectionnée pour la 4e édition du prix Transformative Cities People’s Choice Award
Le Centre Africain de Plaidoyer (ACA) a été sélectionné comme l’un des finalistes pour le prix Transformative Cities People’s Choice Award 2021-2022, rejoignant ainsi 11 autres finalistes qui sont soumis aux votes à compter d’aujourd’hui (6 octobre 2022) jusqu’au 6 novembre 2022.
AFRIQUE CENTRALE: les pays de l’espace Comifac vont renforcer les lois contre la criminalité liée à la faune sauvage et la flore
C’est l’une des conclusions de la réunion extraordinaire du Conseil des Ministres de la COMIFAC, préparatoire aux différentes Conférences des Parties (CdP) en 2022 (climat, biodiversité) et CITES (Convention sur le commerce international des espèces de faune et de flore), tenue le 30 septembre 2022 à Kintele, en République du Congo.
AFRICA: AEWA to strengthen conservation of migratory waterbirds
The next few months will see a strengthening of the conservation capacity for migratory waterbirds on the African continent. This was one of the main resolutions of the Eighth Meeting of the Parties (MOP8) to the African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbird Agreement (AEWA), which took place from 26 to 30 September 2022 in Budapest, Hungary. The latest report on the conservation status of the 255 species listed under AEWA indicates that 33 of them are threatened with extinction.
GABON : un libanais interpellé à Koulamoutou, en possession de 2 pointes d’ivoire
À Koulamoutou, dans la province de l’Ogooué Lolo au Gabon, les fins limiers de la lutte contre le trafic illégal de la faune sauvage ont interpellé un libanais en possession de deux pointes d’ivoire. Au Gabon, toute personne en possession d’une partie d’un animal sauvage est considérée comme le tueur dudit animal, selon la loi faunique.