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)

Representatives of the German and Ugandan renewable energy sector were able to successfully test the jointly developed solutions for electricity and biogas supply in Uganda

Grohe, the world’s leading German manufacturer in sanitary fittings, in collaboration with the Jordanian Food Bank (JFB) and the Food Banking Regional Network, will implement ‘Turn Water into Food’ in Jordan