In a bid to help Uganda improve health and productivity across cities, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a US$62mn concessional loan to finance its Strategic Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Project (STWSSP)

The governments of Japan and Sudan signed the amendment of the grant assistance for a water treatment plant in Kosti City

Africa's Ecobank said in a statement that its management and staff would plant trees in 33 countries, across the bank's footprint in Africa as a part of the World Environment Day

South Africa's Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs, Barbara Thomson opened Unilever's biomass boiler and signed the company's "Sustainable Packaging Commitment " on World Environment Day

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), in a statement, called for aid to the tune of about US$15.1mn to support its operations in tackling the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)