Residents of Msinga, Umzinyathi, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, protesting against water shortages, block roads, target vehicles with stones, loot shops, and shoot at police.
Airstrikes by coalition forces hit water and electricity systems in Sahar, Sadah, Yemen.
According to a report, 38 people are killed and another 30 are injured in fighting between two local clans over water points, grazing land, and border areas, in Gogrial West, Warrap, South Sudan.
Two people are killed when local clans fight over control of a water point in Galkayo, Mudug, Somalia.
Citizens of Grarem Gouga, Mila, Algeria block a road with barricades to demand more water supply, in protest of only receiving water every 15 days.
A demonstration led by locals from the northwest village of Moeka for clean drinking water turns violent. One protester is shot and killed and several homes are destroyed.
Thirty-two people are reported killed and many others sickened from a poisoned water well in Masuubiye, Baidoa, Somalia. It is suspected that the well was poisoned by al Shabaab, a militant group affiliated with Al-Qaeda, in an attempt to prevent government soldiers from drinking the water.
Airstrikes by coalition forces over a multi-day period hit water and electricity systems in Bajil and Al Hawak, Al Hudaydah, Yemen, killing one civilian.
Local militia allegedly supported by the Sudan People’s Liberation Army attack Kenyan herdsmen who crossed the border in search of water and pasture for their cattle.
Water for the Bari community in Somalia is cut off during a violent confrontation between militants that reportedly support Islamic State and Puntland security forces.