Africa

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…

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…

Communities impacted and those under threat of water privatisation across Africa have called on African governments to jettison water privatisation and return privatised water systems to localities for affordable and equitable management.  Local communities in Nigeria, Mozambique, Senegal, Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Gabon, Uganda, and a host of other African countries…

Groups under the aegis of Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition (OWORAC) have described privatization as the biggest impediment to universal access to potable water on the continent of Africa. The coalition which is made up of activists from Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, and Uganda who are…

Civil society and labour activists on the platform of Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition have charged African governments to reject all models of water privatisation and demand the return of water systems seized by private corporations to people through public funding and equitable management. The coalition made the demand at…

At Alausa Ikeja, the seat of power in Lagos State, a group of young women converged on Thursday October 14, 2021. All clad in blue t-shirt and jean trousers, they sang and chanted, “Our water; our right,” “No to water privatization,” as they matched to the Government House, Alausa, to…

Africa water activists seek resistance to corporate privatisation of water as World Bank meets Civil society and labour activists on the platform of the Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition have called on African governments to reject water privatisation and demand the return of water systems seized by private corporations back to…

Women activists and labour unionists stormed the seat of Lagos state government, Alausa, Ikeja, on Thursday, seeking audience with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, with a petition that privatisation of water was evil and constitute gender-based violence against women. The women, who banded together on the platform of Our Water Our Right…

Civil society and labour activists on the platform of the Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition have called on African governments to reject water privatisation and demand the return of water systems seized by private corporations back to the hands of the African people to be publicly funded and equitably…

Civil society and labour activists on the platform of the Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition have called on African governments to reject water privatisation and demand the return of water systems seized by private corporations back to the hands of the African people to be publicly funded and equitably…

Civil society and labour activists on the platform of the Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition have called on African governments to reject water privatisation and demand the return of water systems seized by private corporations. They asked that water be returned to the hands of the African people and…

Civil society and labour activists on the platform of the Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition have called on African governments to reject water privatisation and demand the return of water systems seized by private corporations back to the hands of the African people to be publicly funded and equitably…

From left: Achike Chude, Vice Chair of Joint Action Front, Aderonke Ige, Associate Director, CAPPA, and Philip Jakpor, Director of Programmes, CAPPA. Civil society and labour activists on the platform of the Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition have called on African governments to reject water privatisation and demand the return of…

Civil society and labour activists on the platform of the Our Water Our Right movement have called on the Lagos State Government to reject all forms of corporate control of water and privatisation of water services, including through so-called “public-private partnerships.” CAPPA’s Executive Director, Akinbode Oluwafemi, addressing participants at the…

The Africa Water Week, the first-ever, holds from October 11 to 15. A coalition of civil society organisations, labour unions, and human right activists on Monday held a campaign against water privatisation in Lagos. The groups held a peaceful march to the Lagos State Ministry of Environment on Monday, as…

Civil society and labour activists, under the platform of Our Water Our Right movement, have urged the Lagos State government to reject all forms of corporate control of water and privatisation of water services through public private partnerships (PPPs). The groups include the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA),…

The Lagos State government has been asked to reject all forms of corporate control of water and privatisation of water services, including through the so-called “public-private partnerships,” with a call on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s administration to mobilise enough resources needed to address the infrastructural decay which had brought water production…

Civil society and labour activists, on the platform of the Our Water Our Right movement, have called on the Lagos State government to reject all forms of corporate control of water and privatisation of water services, including through so-called “public-private partnerships.” The groups include the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation…

Civil Society and Labour activists on the platform of the ‘Our Water Our Right movement’ have called on the Lagos State government to reject all forms of corporate control of water and privatisation of water services, including through so-called “public-private partnerships.” The groups include the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation…