Sub-Saharan Africa

Students riot over power cuts and water shortages.

Boran militia attack Gabra village near the Ethiopian border. The attack is linked to long-running disputes over land and water.

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.

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.