Sub-Saharan Africa

Riots occur at the main prison in Abidjan over a water shortage.

Protesters in Bamako, Mali protest the increase of water and power tariffs by the government.

Members and supporters of the ANC protest over insufficient free water and electricity in South Africa.

Hundreds of residents and municipal union members protest the lack of free water in their town in South Africa.

A group of women on canoes protest safeguards on oil standards by blocking water access to a naval base in the Niger Delta, Nigeria.

Students protest against poor conditions at Mombasa Polytechnic University in Kenya, including lack of water supply and proper sanitation. The protest leads to riots and police intervene.

Students riot over power cuts and water shortages.

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.

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.

Malian herdsmen in Missira-Samoura refuse to allow a horseman from Mauritania to use a watering hole. The Mauritanian horseman rides off and returns to the village with other men. Fighting breaks out and results in two people being killed.