Neighborhoods across South Africa’s largest city have gone as long as 11 days without running water this month, a crisis of broken pipes and failed pumps rather than drought, and one that the utility says will take a decade to fix.
A year after the Democratic Republic of Congo capped exports of the battery metal, prices have recovered and the treasury is gaining, but the country’s 200,000 artisanal miners say the windfall has stopped short of the pit.
Kenya now harvests more tilapia from cages than from the open water, a shift that has created thousands of jobs in lakeside counties while raising new concerns about pollution and who owns the lake.
Only 13 of the system’s 41 trains were running in 2024. A $110 million overhaul has put 30 back in service, and ridership has doubled in a city where the alternative is a two-hour minibus ride.
