The Indian High Commissioner to Namibia Tsewanga Topden yesterday on behalf of his government contributed to easing the plight and wellbeing of the people in flood-stricken areas by donating close to N$2 million in cash.

Children relocated to the Oshoopala Reception Centre after their families were displaced by recent floods in the northern parts have received learning materials from the Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare, Marlene Mungunda.

A violent storm has reportedly destroyed many homes and left several families internally displaced in the commercial city of Ganta, Nimba County.

President Jakaya Kikwete will today officially launch a major programme to save the earth from environmental hazards.

IT is unprecedented that even with the failed maize crop registered in major and traditional food-production areas around the country due to floods caused by above-average rain, the nation has still managed a surplus crop.

Suzanne M. a student in Yaounde has been absent from school for the past three days due to an acute cold. She complains of headache, fever, runny nose and general body pains.

Angola Savings and Credit Bank (BPC) on Wednesday in Ondjiva, southern Cunene Province, donated various goods to assist the victims of the heavy rains that fell in the city from February to April this year, in this region.

THE relocation of people displaced by floods at Oshakati is underway.

The rains have started falling in northeastern Kenya, but this alone is unlikely to immediately resolve the food problems facing the mainly nomadic families in the semi-arid region, aid workers said.

A freak storm battered parts of Nyanza Province, leaving a massive trail of destruction.

Samson Mwenda, a farmer from Namwala in Zambia's Southern Province, recalls with bitterness the massive floods of the 2007/2008 rainy season and the harsh consequences they had for his life.

The days are hot and long in Sudan's arid Northern Kordofan State, between North Darfur and Khartoum, where the farmers say droughts have become more intense and frequent in the past few decades as they sip hot chai in Gereigikh village, about 100km northeast of the state capital, El Obied.

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A heavy storm over the weekend destroyed about 25 houses in the commercial city of Ganta, Nimba County.

The Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI) initiative Project Efundja that aims at helping the flood-hit towns was launched last week Friday at Oshakati with an overwhelming positive response from different companies.

Transport in Arusha has been thrown into chaos after rains washed away several bridges in the municipality.

Believe it or don't humanity will live in a progressively warmer world never known to our great grandfathers. No matter who is responsible, every living creature will pay the price. We are sure that the industrialised world that has produced millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is the major culprit.

The Minister of Forestry and Wildlife, Prof. Elvis Ngolle Ngolle, has said forest exploitation is beneficial only if the effects of global warming are taken into consideration.

Unless Nigerians derive climate friendly mechanisms like turning-off of electric bulbs when not in use, buying a fuel-efficient vehicle, getting rid of old refrigerators as some solutions to global warming, the country will continuously get warmed, Minister of Environment, Housing and Urban Development, has warned.

Although Mozambican President Armando Guebuza, currently on a working visit to the northern province of Nampula, has praised reconstruction work undertaken after cyclone Jokwe hit the Nampula coast almost two months ago, a great deal more still heeds to be done to repair the damage.

A violent rainstorm has left several persons wounded and internally displaced in Foya and Voinjama districts, Lofa County.

Some 5,000 people whose homes were destroyed a week ago after heavy rains in northwestern Burundi urgently need shelter and food aid, local officials said.

Two earthquakes - less than two hours apart - rocked Omaruru on Saturday.

The minister of Environment, Housing and Urban Development, Mrs. Halima Tayo Alao yesterday at the flag-off, exercise of the national climate change awareness campaign, tagged Abuja climate change city storm, identified massive tree planting and the use of environment-friendly energy as measures that can check the negative consequences of climate change.

Severe damage to road infrastructure by floods has widened the funding gap in the roads sector already grappling with a serious budget deficit.