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 least 40 people die in Kenya and Ethiopia in continuing clashes over water, livestock, and grazing land. Fighting occurs in the southern Ethiopia in the region of Oromo and the northern Kenya Marsabit district.
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.
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.
Unknown gunmen kidnap four Sudanese government drivers of the state water corporation in Um Tajok, Darfur and steal a drilling rig. It is not known if the kidnapped persons and drilling rig are returned.
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.