Sub-Saharan Africa

Twenty people total are killed in clashes between Orma and Pokomo ethnic groups over access to fresh water in Kenya.

A series of massacres in central Mali, fueled by conflict over land and water resources, causes 50,000 people to flee their homes.

In Mozambique, unidentified armed groups sabotage waterworks and burn houses of civilians.

The Mauritania government breaks up protests of water and electricity prices.

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.

Clashes break out between the village of Djigueni and Missira in Mauritania over the control of a water hole for cattle. Clashes over water rights are common during the dry season.

In Angola, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola attacks and occupies Catete, leaving Luanda without water. Addionally eight civilians and two FAA are killed and many others are captured.

Eritrea accuses Ethiopia of bombing the Red Sea port at Assab, saying several bombs are dropped on Assab, destroying a water storage facility on the outskirts of the town.