During the long-running conflict in the Congo, many water utility systems are attacked and destroyed. By 2006, the World Bank estimates that at least one-third of water utility installations have been looted and completely destroyed.
During a violent, forced displacement effort by the Ethiopian military, water wells and other water supply sources are destroyed. The Ethiopian military is seeking to move people out of the country side and into larger towns and cities in order to continue their counterinsurgency fight against the Ogaden National Liberation Front. Numerous sources report executions of those who refuse to cooperate.
A 20-year-old woman reports that prior to being beat by military forces, she was threatened with drowning in a well if she does not comply. This report is associated with reports soldiers guarding water holes and of other human rights abuses by the Ethiopian military from their campaign to defeat the Ogaden National Liberation Front.
At least 12 people die and over 20 are wounded in clashes over competition for water and pasture in the Somali border region.
At the Hassa Hissa camp near Zalinjay, Gharb Darfur, Sudan, ten assailants attempt to damage a water pump outside of an internally displaced person (IDP) camp. The armed men open fire on the pump and set fire to the pump and five generators. The assailants fight with occupants of the camp, wounding one. No group claims responsibility, although it is widely believed the Janjaweed Militia is responsible.
Declining rainfall has led to growing fights between animal herders and farmers with competing needs. In August, 2007 people are forced to flee their homes by fighting in Zounweogo province.
A protest over the price of water in Nyanya, Abuja, Nigeria results in violence, including the beating of water vendors.
Fighting over boreholes in arid northern Kenya kills at least four people as competition for resources grows in the drought-hit region between the Murulle and Garre clans in El Wak, Mandera District.
One person is killed and five injured when security forces open fire on protests over an attempt to privatize water services in Lere, northwestern Mali.
Riots break out after a water drilling rig that had been drilling water wells for one community in the capital is transferred by government authorities to the western part of the country. Five people died and fifteen are wounded in the demonstration.