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October 10,2023

Coalition of NGOs cautions African leaders over water privatization

As activists across Africa mark this year’s Africa Week of Action Against Water Privatization, a coalition of civil society and labour activists have decried attempts to commercialize and privatize water on the continent. The Our Water, Our Right Africa Coalition (OWORAC) at this year’s event, which is the third called…

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October 09,2023

Our Water, Our Right: African communities, workers, and civil society join hands across continent urging regional leaders to stave off water privatisation threats

This week, civil society and labour activists are urging African leaders to be the bulwark against a rising tide of threats to communities’ access to water, with particular attention to the insidious threats that water privatisation and corporate capture pose to the human right to water. The Our Water, Our…

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October 05,2023

Week of Action Against Water Privatization in Africa with Oumar Ba

Africa Week of Action Against Water Privatisation with Oumar Ba Week of Action Against Water Privatization in Africa with Oumar Ba Environmental Engineer and General Secretary of the Trade Union of Workers in the Area of Water in Senegal, Oumar BA, shares insights on the imperative of democratic management of water in Africa

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October 05,2023

Week of Action Against Water Privatization in Africa with Gideon Muya

Africa Week of Action Against Water Privatisation with Gideon Muya Week of Action Against Water Privatization in Africa with Gideon Muya Gideon Muya, a member of the Biodiversity and Biosafety Association, Kenya, discusses Kenya’s Water Crisis.

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October 05,2023

Week of Action Against Water Privatization in Africa with Geoffrey Ocansey

Africa Week of Action Against Water Privatisation with Geoffrey Ocansey Week of Action Against Water Privatization in Africa with Geoffrey Ocansey Geoffrey Ocansey, Convenor, Water Citizens Network, speaks on the forthcoming Africa Water Week of Action 2023. He discusses the state of access to water in Africa, especially Ghana.

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October 04,2023

Third Africa Week of Action Against Water Privatisation to Deepen Pushback Against World Bank, IMF

Civil society and labour activists from Africa campaigning against water privatisation will organise the third edition of the Africa Week of Action Against Water Privatisation from 9-15 October 2023. The week of action, which coincides with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Annual Meetings holding in Marrakech, Morocco…

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March 23,2023

On World Water Day, African leaders urged to ‘accelerate change’ from privatisation, false solutions

In commemoration of World Water Day 2023, civil society, labour and community activists, leading the Our Water, Our Right Africa Coalition (OWORAC), yesterday, called on local, national and regional leaders to heed the lessons of history by dumping the false solution of water privatisation under any guise. The coalition, which…

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March 23,2023

World Water Day 2023: African Center for Advocacy Mobilizes Youths to Accelerate Change

By Ikome Christie-Noella Eposi in Buea Under the theme “Accelerating Change”, the African Center for Advocacy in partnership with the Clean Water and Sanitation Africa have created positive impacts in the Bokwai community, Buea town and other communities in Buea as they mobilized some youth volunteers in Buea to clean-up…

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November 17,2022

World Bank Responds To Alleged Involvement In Nigeria’s Water Resources Bill

The World Bank’s Global Director for Climate Change, Jennifer Sara, has said that the World Bank is indifferent about ownership of the water supply infrastructure in any country it deals with as long as it is clean, safe and delivered “at an affordable price.” She said this while interacting with…

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October 25,2022

Lagos Market Women lament the cost of water on their businesses

Market Women in Lagos, especially women, have lamented the huge cost they expend on water to ensure their produce remains fresh and marketable to consumers. Lamenting the fact that they must patronize private water vendors to fill the gap, they told members of the African Women Water, Sanitation and Hygiene…

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October 15,2022

AFRIQUE : les communautés africaines élèvent la voix contre la privatisation de l’eau

Les communautés touchées et celles qui sont menacées par la privatisation de l’eau à travers l’Afrique ont appelé les gouvernements africains à abandonner la privatisation de l’eau et à rendre les systèmes d’eau privatisés aux localités pour une gestion abordable et équitable. Les communautés locales au Nigeria, au Mozambique, au…

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October 15,2022

Nigeria: Les communautés africaines élèvent la voix contre la privatisation de l’eau

Par Boris Ngounou Les communautés touchées et celles qui sont menacées par la privatisation de l’eau à travers l’Afrique ont appelé les gouvernements africains à abandonner la privatisation de l’eau et à rendre les systèmes d’eau privatisés aux localités pour une gestion abordable et équitable.Les communautés locales au Nigeria, au…

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October 14,2022

Group urges African Govts to discard water privatisation agenda

Non-Governmental Organisation The Executive Director of a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), called New-Life Community Care Initiative (NELCCI), Florence Ifeanyi-Aneke, has urged African countries to discard their water privatisation agenda. Africa Water Week Ifeanyi-Aneke made the call on Friday at an event to commemorate the 2022 Africa Water Week in Enugu. Corporate Accountability and…

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October 14,2022

CAPPA Condemns World Bank, Entities’ Role In Promoting Water Privatisation In Africa

Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), a non-governmental organisation, has condemned the action of World Bank and for-profit only entities, in promoting water privatization in Africa, while urging African governments to fully uphold human right to water. The executive director, CAPPA, Akinbode Oluwafemi, at a press briefing, organised by…

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October 12,2022

African Communities Raise their Voices Against Water Privatisation

Local communities in Nigeria, Mozambique, Senegal, Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Gabon, Uganda, and a host of other African countries are making this their focal demand as they mark the second edition of Africa Week of Action Against Water Privatization Communities impacted and those under threat of water privatization across Africa have…

Coalition of NGOs cautions African leaders over water privatization

Our Water, Our Right: African communities, workers, and civil society join hands across continent urging regional leaders to stave off water privatisation threats

Week of Action Against Water Privatization in Africa with Oumar Ba

Week of Action Against Water Privatization in Africa with Gideon Muya

Week of Action Against Water Privatization in Africa with Geoffrey Ocansey

Third Africa Week of Action Against Water Privatisation to Deepen Pushback Against World Bank, IMF

On World Water Day, African leaders urged to ‘accelerate change’ from privatisation, false solutions

World Water Day 2023: African Center for Advocacy Mobilizes Youths to Accelerate Change

World Bank Responds To Alleged Involvement In Nigeria’s Water Resources Bill

Lagos Market Women lament the cost of water on their businesses

AFRIQUE : les communautés africaines élèvent la voix contre la privatisation de l’eau

Nigeria: Les communautés africaines élèvent la voix contre la privatisation de l’eau

Group urges African Govts to discard water privatisation agenda

CAPPA Condemns World Bank, Entities’ Role In Promoting Water Privatisation In Africa

African Communities Raise their Voices Against Water Privatisation

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