Environment

[Seychelles News Agency] Since the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF) started monitoring green turtles' nesting in the early 1980s, there has been an almost 500 percent increase in the number coming ashore to lay eggs, an officer at the foundation said. (AllAfrica)

[VOA] Washington -- According to local press reports, Kenya has opted out of banning imported Chinese fish, a prohibition that had been considered to protect the local industry, because the African nation is facing a fish shortage. (AllAfrica)

[Seychelles News Agency] A first book providing the history and the plants in the Fond Ferdinand nature reserve on Seychelles' second-most populated island of Praslin is now available from author Steen G. Hansen. (AllAfrica)

[New Times] According to a recent report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), every household in Rwanda wastes 164 kg of food every year while 2,075,405 tonnes of food is wasted at household level per year. (AllAfrica)

[Nation] On the foothills of Ndikir Mountains in Laisamis, Marsabit County, societal and gender roles are being redefined. (AllAfrica)

[The Herald] Isdore Guvamombe -- It is a marvel. It is a rare spectacle. They call it the "Lunar Rainbow." (AllAfrica)

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday inaugurated the Gorongosa dam, on the Nhandare river in the central province of Sofala. (AllAfrica)

[Nation] Sponsored by Kenya Climate Smart Agriculture Project (AllAfrica)

[Daily News] THE government has begun issuing certificates to investors wishing to invest in wildlife conservation, a move which is expected to motivate investments and enhance local content in the country's wildlife conservation. (AllAfrica)

[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum / Nile Valley -- Sudan's floods committee has urged the public as well as commercial and other sectors to take precautionary measures as the level of the Nile exceeds the official flood mark by 24 centimetres. The committee statement says it anticipates increases in the Sennar-Khartoum and Khartoum-Atbara sectors at a rate of 10 centimetres. (AllAfrica)

[Seychelles News Agency] The Save Our Seas Foundation, a foundation dedicated to protecting life in the world's ocean, has centres in Seychelles, South Africa and the USA. (AllAfrica)

[VOA] Abuja -- Nigerian customs officials have announced the country's third largest bust of pangolin scales and the arrest of three foreign nationals. (AllAfrica)

[East African] When it comes to the big debates about climate change, Africa is the forgotten continent. It receives less than three percent of global climate finance and yet 30 out of the 40 most climate vulnerable countries in the world are in Africa. It contributes the least to global warming and yet extreme weather events are growing in both frequency and severity with a shocking knock-on impact on biodiversity loss. (AllAfrica)

[GroundUp] Dozens of UIF applicants were turned away from the Department of Labour in Gqeberha because the office has had no water for about a week. (AllAfrica)

[Nation] Deep inside Africa's largest slum by size, Kibera informal settlement, a group of children are playing football. (AllAfrica)

[Premium Times] The inaugural climate change fellowship birthed from the rising negative impacts of climate change across Africa. (AllAfrica)

[GroundUp] Mpethu location in Swayimane, 41km outside Pietermaritzburg, is near the Nagle Dam that supplies Durban. (AllAfrica)

[New Times] Tonnes of mobile phone e-waste are going uncollected and might be endangering human health with poisonous chemicals across the country, environmentalists have warned. (AllAfrica)

[SAnews.gov.za] The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) will lodge an investigation into allegations of corruption and maladministration in the affairs of the national Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS). (AllAfrica)

[SciDev.Net] An invasive weed could escalate the spread of malaria in East Africa after scientists found new evidence that it creates a favourable breeding ground for female mosquitoes, which transmit malaria. (AllAfrica)

[Seychelles News Agency] Seychelles is looking into the possibility of developing new industries by reusing and recycling fishing nets and gear currently abandoned at the Ile Du Port, Zone 14. (AllAfrica)

[Ethiopian Herald] A common proverb goes "Action speaks louder than voice". This proverb typically indicates that people's action shows their real outlooks, rather than what they say. This expression is also used to advise a person to do something positive. Moreover, the proverb expresses how actions are more important than words or what someone does has more value than what someone says. (AllAfrica)

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- "There is no way to deprive the Tunisian people of their right to access to drinking water anymore," President Kais Saied stressed at a meeting Thursday at the Palace of Carthage, with CEO of the National Water Distribution Utility (SONEDE) Mosbah Helali, Director General of the Office of Planning and Water Balances at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources, Hammadi Habaib, and representative of the Directorate General of Water Resources at the Department of Agriculture Samir Hedyaoui. (AllAfrica)

[Greenpeace] To Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Energy and Petroleum (AllAfrica)

[East African] A study published in the journal Plos One outlines how remaining within the goals of the Paris Agreement would save many species in Kenya. (AllAfrica)

[East African] The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (Igad) has expressed concern over the potential environmental disaster posed to the Red Sea by the FSO Safer, an aging oil tanker moored off the western coast of Yemen. (AllAfrica)

[Namibia Economist] Over the past three months more than 76 km of illegal fish nets have been confiscated from illegal fishermen and burnt by the Sikunga Fish guards, while 14 arrests have been made in conjunction with these illegal fishing practices. (AllAfrica)

[Govt of SA] The Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation, Lindiwe Sisulu, has congratulated Rand Water, an entity of the Department of Water and Sanitation for which successfully arranged the auction of just over R1.7 Billion in senior and sustainability-linked notes, which attracted over R4.5 Billion in capital markets bids. (AllAfrica)

[Nation] Maragoli Hills forest in Vihiga County has suffered years of massive destruction that has left it a pale shadow of its former self. (AllAfrica)

[Nation] A group of fishermen on a fishing expedition to Lake Victoria have stumbled on six motor bombs near Rusinga Island in Homa Bay County. (AllAfrica)

[OCHA] HIGHLIGHTS (AllAfrica)