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AfDB Underscores Need to Broaden Application of Paris Declaration Principles
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Nigeria: 'Global Food Crisis is Effect of Climate Change'

Architect Halima Tayo Alao, the Minister of Environment, Housing and Urban Development is a committed community leader who has served Nigeria in several professional and administrative positions before attaining her present status.

  Leadership
Africa: Farmers Urged to Join 'Greener' Revolution

Some 100 delegates from 36 countries meeting at FAO today called on farmers to join the ongoing "Greener" revolution represented by a form of farming known as Conservation Agriculture.

  FAO
Africa: Interrogating Official Mechanisms for Tackling Climate Change [opinion]

Climate Change is accepted today even by die hard sceptics as a real crisis that must be urgently tackled for the preservation of the earth in a form that would sustain human and other life forms. The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the best known body of climate scientists who accepts that most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely due to the increase ...

  Fahamu
Nigeria: Floods Wreck Havoc in Bwari

Residents of Dutse Alhaji and Dutse Makaranta in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are now counting their losses following the havoc done by floods in the two communities.

  Leadership
Nigeria: PHCN Blames Poor Hydro Generation On Climate Change

The newly appointed chief executive officer of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), Engr Bello Suleman has attributed the nation's poor hydro generation to the global climatic change.

  Leadership
Africa: Link Between Crop Failure And Climate Change Often Missed

Climate change has a profound effect on food security in Africa, as increasing temperatures and shifting rain patterns reduce access to food across the continent.

  IPS
Southern Africa: New Money to Mitigate Disaster

In an effort to mitigate the negative impact of climate change, new funding by European Commission's Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) will help bolster disaster risk reduction and community resilience in Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi and the Comoros.

  IRIN
Angola: Environment Ministry Holds Seminar on Climate Changes

The Urbanisation and Environment Ministry (Minua) organises as from this Thursday in Luanda, the first national seminar on "Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Changes".

  ANGOP
Nigeria: Two Feared Dead As Flood Takes Over Dutse- Baupma

Two persons were yesterday morning feared dead at Dutse-Baupma of Bwari Area Council when an early morning downpour caused a river to overshoot its bank and send water into the community.

  Daily Trust
Kenya: Livestock Disease, High Prices Fuelling Food Insecurity

Recurrent outbreaks of the viral livestock disease peste des petits ruminants (PPR), which affects goats and sheep, are exacerbating poor food security in the mainly pastoralist Turkana region of northwestern Kenya.

  IRIN
Uganda: New Practices to Help Farmers Beat Climate Change

FARMERS need to learn new practices to adapt to new climatic changes. A report released by Oxfam, a non-governmental organisation, shows that adaptation can help the communities live with the climatic change that has taken its toll on farming and pastoral communities.

  New Vision
Uganda: Climate Change Monitors On Rwenzori

They flock our country year in and year out appreciating the gifts that God gave our land. Flocking our nation to climb our mountains that they call virgin because they have survived the heavy pollution and litter that is a characteristic of the foreign peaks such as the Everest.

  Monitor
Liberia: Govt Warns Monrovia Floods Worst in City's History

Intense and heavy rainfall in the Liberian capital Monrovia on 20 July caused the worst floods on record in Monrovia and forced nearly 1,000 people out of their houses, Liberian authorities told IRIN.

  IRIN
South Africa: Cape Farmers Expect the Unexpected

The Western Cape region attracts millions of tourists who come to this part of South Africa to enjoy its famous Table Mountain and beaches, and to experience some of the world's best wines and deciduous fruits.

  IPS
South Africa: Van Schalkwyk Paints Grim Picture of Climate Change

The longer the delay in taking action on climate change, the greater the costs would be for everyone to minimise its effects and adapt to them, Environment and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said last night.

  Business Day
Nigeria: Rainstorm Ravages Schools in Mubi

A rainstorm has ravaged 18 classrooms at the Government Science and Technical College, Mubi, in Adamawa State.

  Leadership
Nigeria: Commissioner Attributes Desertification to Uncontrolled Logging

Sokoto State Commissioner for Forestry and Animal Health, Alhaji Kabiru Tafida, has blamed desertification in the state on the indiscriminate felling of trees by the people.

  Leadership
South Africa: Kruger Park 'Stands to Be Devastated By Climate Change

Up to two-thirds of the animal species in the Kruger National Park could become extinct if global temperatures increase at the current rate.

  BuaNews
South Africa: West Coast Braces for More Gales

Vredenburg residents, still recovering from the harsh winds that left many of their homes damaged last week, are now bracing for gale-force winds forecast for the area for the next three days.

  Argus
Africa: Soil Database Win-Win Options for Climate Change Mitigation And Food Production

A new database on the world's soils improves knowledge of the current and future land productivity as well as the present carbon storage and carbon sequestration potential of the world's soils. It helps to identify land and water limitations, and assist in assessing the risks of land degradation, particularly soil erosion risks, said FAO today.

  FAO
Sierra Leone: Volunteers Help Flood Victims

The Kroo Bay area of the Sierra Leone capital Freetown is one of the poorest and most marginalised in the country. During the country's six-month rainy season, flood waters wash refuse and filth into people's houses, meaning waterborne diseases are extremely frequent.

  IRIN
Angola: Climatic Changes Implementation Strategy Approved

Angolan Government has approved the national strategy on the implementation of the UN convention framework on climatic changes and the Kyoto Protocol that seeks, among other purposes, to foment international cooperation in the domain of the said alterations and transfer of knowledge and experience.

  ANGOP
Africa: First Countries Named to Benefit from Forest Carbon Partnership Facility [press release]

Fourteen states have been selected as the first developing country members of an innovative partnership and international financing mechanism to combat tropical deforestation and climate change.

  World Bank
Nigeria: Stemming the Impact of Climate Change

How can the impact of climate change be mitigated? This is the question stakeholders converged on Sokoto to consider at an Information and Policy Advocacy Session convened by the Heinrich Boll Foundation, Nigeria in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Environment.

  Daily Trust
Angola: Kyoto Protocol Implementation Strategy Formalised

Resolution of Cabinet Council that approves the national strategy on UN climate changes and kyoto convention

  ANGOP

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