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.
Attacks on Inga Dam during efforts to topple President Kabila. Disruption of electricity supplies from Inga Dam and water supplies to Kinshasa, Congo.
During the war with Ethiopia in 1998, many water supply systems in the mountainous region of Debub and Gash Barka in Eritrea are destroyed.
Water pumping plants and pipelines in the border town of Adi Kuala are destroyed during the civil war between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
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.
Congress of South African Trade Unions, South African Municipal Workers Union and the South African Communist Party marched on the Nelspruit council to protest against plans to privatise water and sanitation services.
A water pipeline is bombed along the Great North Road in Lusaka, Zambia. No group claims responsibility for the attack, however the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola is suspected of placing the bomb. This attack coincides with four other area bombings on the same day.
Namibia and Botswana engage in a territorial dispute over Sedudu Island, or Kasikili Island, in the Zambezi River, or Chobe River, related to the location of the border and access to water. The International Court of Justice rules in favor of Botswana in 1999.
Sixteen bombs are reported to have exploded throughout the city of Lusaka, Zambia, with damage targeted at water pipes, power lines, and the Angolan Embassy. At least one person is killed and two are injured. Many people are without water and power for many days after the explosions. No one claims responsibility for the bombs, however, it is speculated that the attackers were seeking to discredit the Zambian government by causing chaos.
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.