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Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – Egypt, Nigeria, and South Africa have emerged as Africa’s most polluted countries in terms of air pollution disease burden, with profound health consequences for Africa’s people and exacerbated impacts on climate change, a report prepared by Greenpeace Africa and Greenpeace MENA reveals

©- - 28 march 2024 - 18:39:26 - thread (809 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius on Tuesday launched the PIM Recycling Ltd In the context of the Global Recycling Day, aiming to reinforce the recycling and recovery of plastic waste and promote the responsible use of plastics through local solutions

©- - 19 march 2024 - 08:01:36 - thread (302 words)


Djibouti, Djibouti (PANA) - The Eastern Africa region is likely to suffer from a protracted environmental pollution whose effects could be felt over the next 30 years following the sinking of a fertiliser-laden ship, Rubymar, a regional body, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), warned on Thursday

©- - 07 march 2024 - 14:27:59 - thread (375 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Marking the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies on Thursday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a powerful call for increased international cooperation to address the “global emergency” of worsening air pollution

©- - 07 september 2023 - 06:30:28 - thread (687 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Over 2,000 delegates from around the world gathered at the UN in Geneva on Monday to discuss how best to curb chemical pollution, which has had increasingly dire consequences for health and the environment

©- - 02 may 2023 - 05:42:00 - thread (441 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Minister of Environment, Solid Waste Management and Climate Change, Mr Kavydass Ramano, on Tuesday, said that the Environmental Awards had been launched to better showcase and valorize best environmental practices while also encouraging a major environment transformational change

©- - 11 april 2023 - 10:36:19 - thread (308 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius on Wednesday launched an Air Quality Indexing (AQI) system to collect and analyse data with the view to reduce levels of key air pollutants and improve the quality of air, in line with World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines

©- - 08 september 2022 - 09:36:57 - thread (332 words)


Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Togolese phosphate effluents are damaging biological resources and the ecosystem in Benin, according to a communication from the Beninese minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development, José Didier Tonato

©- - 20 june 2022 - 16:45:46 - thread (381 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian Minister of Environment, Solid Waste Management and Climate Change, Mr Kavy Ramano, on Thursday, said that the government will impose penalties for littering and illegal dumping in public zones

©- - 30 july 2021 - 05:46:19 - thread (168 words)


Ebène, Mauritius (PANA) - The Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) on Saturday launched a five-year the Indian Ocean Plastic Expedition (ExPLOI) project as a regional response against marine plastic pollution, official sources at the IOC headquarters in Ebène, in central Mauritius, said

©- - 11 july 2021 - 09:59:29 - thread (367 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Blue Economy, Marine Resources, Fisheries and Shipping Ministry would promulgate the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution by Harmful Substances Carried by Sea in Packaged Form) Regulations 2020 to prevent sea pollution from harmful chemical substances, the Government announced on Saturday morning, following its weekly Cabinet meeting

©- - 31 october 2020 - 08:36:11 - thread (378 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) -  More than 400 young Africans were on Friday honoured for their leadership in addressing plastic pollution in their communities as part of the Tide Turners Plastic Challenge

©- - 16 october 2020 - 12:41:03 - thread (787 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Environment, Solid Waste Management and Climate Change minister, Kavydass Ramano, on Tuesday, told Parliament that the government will construct five Civic Amenity Centres where households can dispose of specific waste that is not collected by local authorities and can resolve the issue of illegal dumping of waste

©- - 08 july 2020 - 11:47:31 - thread (338 words)


Juba, South Sudan (PANA) – South Sudan has commenced a process to inspect the environmental impact of oil production with an announcement to foreign firms capable of undertaking the audit to show interest

©- - 10 january 2020 - 16:54:17 - thread (410 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – The rapidly growing car population in East African cities is driving fears of increased rise in lung diseases linked to pollutants from car fumes, cooking stoves and the soot from industries found mostly near low income settlements in urban centres, state officials have warned

©- - 05 november 2019 - 20:52:53 - thread (415 words)


Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The celebration of the 2019 edition of World Ocean Day took place Saturday in the historic city of Grand-Bassam, UNESCO World Heritage, under a sex-specific tone with the theme "Ocean and gender" in order to explore the gender dimension in the human relationship, and to seek ways to promote gender equality in related activities to the oceans

©- - 08 june 2019 - 16:23:11 - thread (320 words)


Bamako, Mali (PANA)   -   Officials from departments under the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs said here Wednesday there was no evidence of poisoning of dead fish found outside the Niger River, following heavy rains of May 15, 2019  in the Malian capital, sources told PANA

©- - 23 may 2019 - 23:42:10 - thread (399 words)


Bamako, Mali (PANA)   -   The Malian Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries said here Monday significant amounts of runoff water from the Niger River had drained and caused high fish mortality in the village of Baguineda in the commune of Baguineda, Kati circle, Koulikoro region, about 40 km from Bamako

©- - 20 may 2019 - 23:30:58 - thread (289 words)


Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunis Ecology Association has warned against "visual and non-visual industrial pollution" which has reached 40% in some parts of Tunisia

©- - 09 march 2019 - 15:50:56 - thread (204 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Shifting to renewable energy could save up to 150 million lives by the end of the century amid concerns that six billion people regularly inhale air “so polluted that it puts their life, health and well-being at risk”, a UN-appointed independent rights expert said on Monday

©- - 05 march 2019 - 05:31:51 - thread (540 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan authorities say they will formally implement the ban on the use of straws and plastic cups throughout the country to protect the environment, PANA reported Wednesday, quoting official sources in Kigali
©- - 30 january 2019 - 20:45:56 - thread (315 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan Environment minister Vincent Biruta said here Tuesday that he will propose a legislation to enforce the country's ban on plastic shopping bags in order to save the environment
©- - 05 june 2018 - 16:31:30 - thread (159 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the IAAF Tuesday announced a new partnership to address the issue of air quality which is leading to 7 million deaths across the world
©- - 29 may 2018 - 13:51:14 - thread (560 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Air pollution levels remain dangerously high in many parts of the world with new data released by the UN health agency on Wednesday showing that 9 out of 10 people breathe air containing high levels of pollutants
©- - 02 may 2018 - 06:38:16 - thread (771 words)


Gambia, Gambia (PANA) - Hundreds of youths from a Gambian coastal fishing town, Gunjur, about 25 kilometres from Banjul, on Thursday protested against a Chinese company that they allege is polluting their environment and the sea
©- - 23 march 2018 - 09:14:28 - thread (418 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Growing antimicrobial resistance linked to the discharge of drugs and some chemicals into the environment is one of the most worrying health threats today, according to new research from the United Nations that highlights emerging challenges and solutions in environment
©- - 05 december 2017 - 21:21:54 - thread (620 words)


London, UK (PANA) - Pollution is a major cause of premature death, disability, and disease around the world, a new report in the medical journal Lancet has said, stressing that most health impacts are on people living in low- and middle-income countries
©- - 20 october 2017 - 05:41:33 - thread (334 words)


New York, US (PANA) – While pollution has considerably negative impacts on human health and ecosystems, it is controllable and avoidable through political leadership, high-level champions and commitments, as well with local level action, says a new report launched on Thursday by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
©- - 28 september 2017 - 22:28:17 - thread (410 words)


New York, US (PANA) – A new report by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) says almost one in seven of the world’s children, 300 million, live in areas with the most toxic levels of outdoor air pollution – six or more times higher than international guidelines
©- - 31 october 2016 - 08:56:34 - thread (759 words)


New York, US (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO), in partnership with the Coalition for Climate and Clean Air (CCAC) and the Government of Norway, has launched a global awareness campaign on the dangers of air pollution, especially "invisible killers" such as black carbon, ground-level ozone and methane – for the health of individuals and the planet
©- - 21 october 2016 - 05:33:31 - thread (450 words)