Four people are hospitalised after drinking water that is poisoned with acid and sold in plastic containers at the 28 September Stadium in Guinea, where the President held a final campaign rally.
The Mauritania government breaks up protests of water and electricity prices.
In Mozambique, unidentified armed groups sabotage waterworks and burn houses of civilians.
Twenty people total are killed in clashes between Orma and Pokomo ethnic groups over access to fresh water in Kenya.
Angry protests take place in various communities of Ain Berda province, Algeria over gas, water and electricity shortages. Youths build barricades and block roads during these demonstrations.
Three students are seriously wounded in a clash with police at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. Police are preventing students from protesting the lack of water and electricity on campus.
India releases water from a dam on the River Sutlej, causing moderate flooding downstream in Pakistan. India claims that the release is a “routine exercise” during monsoon season. The release and resultant flooding are seen as an act of war by Pakistan. This incident adds to the already strained relations between the two countries which have been at odds since February 2019 when 40 Indian parliamentary police were killed by a suicide bomb in Kashmir.
For the second consecutive day, clashes between Al ‘Ukad tribesmen and pro-Houthi forces are reported in the Ridmah district of Ibb Governorate, Yemen. Clashes are reportedly initiated on September 24 as the tribesmen seize the weapons of a group of Houthi fighters to show their opposition to a water project. Injuries are reported on both sides but no fatalities.
A water station in Basida, Idlib Governorate, Syria, serving 80,000 people is damaged by ongoing violence.
Five Saudi-led coalition air raids are reported on water wells and reservoirs across the Kamaran island in the north of Hudaydah Governorate, western Yemen. No casualties are reported but a large number of wells and reservoirs are destroyed.