….Designed to Monitor WASH Commitments – By: WASH R&E “Media” Network – The Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) has successfully conducted a 3-Day Regional Training Workshop on Advocacy, Communications and Monitoring of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Commitments. The Workshop held in Cotonou, Benin from February 18-20, 2014 brought together journalists and civil society actors on meeting the Post 2015 targets on Water and Sanitation. It mainly brought together media practitioners from the West Africa WASH Journalists Network. Speaking at the official opening ceremony, the Health Minister of Benin Dorothe Kinde Gazard said the issue of Water, Sanitation... Continue Reading
By Dennis Kabatto – The dire situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) – where almost 20,000 people have reportedly crossed into Cameroon since the beginning of February to avoid the violence – was the provision agenda of the seven thousand and fourteenth meeting of the UN Security Council. Though the exact number of casualty is unknown, thousands of people are reportedly been killed in the conflict. The Secretary General estimates almost one million people have been displaced and about 2.5 million people in need of desperate humanitarian assistance. At Thursday’s meeting in New York, Secretary General Mr. Ban KI-moon urged the... Continue Reading
GAUTENG, 20 FEBRUARY 2014 – Next month Cape Town plays host to what is fast becoming sub-Saharan Africa’s leading event dedicated to the power generation industry. Over 2,000 industry heavyweights will descend on the Mother City from 17 – 19 March to discuss current and future power-generating trends as well as the needs and resources within this region of the world at Power-Gen Africa 2014. One of the exhibitors at this year’s event is IWC – South African leaders in cooling towers and cooling solutions in Africa, offering fully integrated solutions, from cooling towers to glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) manufacturing and plate heat exchangers (PHE) supplied by... Continue Reading
By Elias Mhegera – Researchers have signaled the end of land based conflicts which have become monotonous in some areas of Tanzania leading to heinous and unprecedented killings. This hope was given recently by the Executive Director of the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF), Dr Bohela Lunogelo during the opening of a modern studio facility at the centre dubbed “Maendeleo Studio”. Dr Lunogelo was responding exclusively to this reporter on February 11, when he was asked why the ESRF has not embarked in researching on land conflicts in order to suggest a tangible solution to the Government. “We are quite... Continue Reading
MEC for infrastructure Development, Ms Qedani Mahlangu has joined international energy guru’s in calling for a global paradigm shift to achieve a sustainable solution to the ‘energy trilemma’ (the three challenges of energy security, social equity and environmental impact mitigation). Speaking at day two of Africa Energy Indaba in Sandton today, MEC Mahlangu said, ‘we need to move beyond business as usual. The energy trilemma is more poignant to developing countries within the African continent than ever before, we need to develop energy policies which decisively address the conflicting challenges of energy security, social equity and environmental sustainability – we need... Continue Reading
