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April 17
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Mauritius: Mauritians Unprepared for Effects of Climate Change
Mauritius may be one of the best-prepared countries in the world when it comes to cyclones, but recent heavy rains and flooding due to climate change have brought the country's... Read more »
March 1
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Mozambique: Water - a Blessing and a Curse
As Mozambique tries to recover from the worst flooding here since 2000, experts have called for a national discussion on water management and how to maximise its usage in favour of... Read more »
February 15
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Zimbabwe: Water, Water Everywhere - and No Early Warning in Sight [analysis]
Muzeka Muyeyekwa from Mapfekera Village in Zimbabwbe's Manicaland Province wonders what he will feed his three children for lunch. Read more »
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West Africa: Sahel Region Learning to Reap the Benefits of Shade
In Africa's Sahel region, agroforestry techniques using traditional plantings known as "fertiliser trees" to increase soil fertility, as well as harvesting and grazing regulations,... Read more »
December 20, 2012
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Cameroon: Fighting to Save Africa's Richest Rainforest
Monde Kingsley Nfor interviews NASAKO BESINGI, director of environmental NGO Struggle to Economize the Future. Read more »
December 18, 2012
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Africa: Farmers Need to Grow Climate Smart
Farmers cannot wait much longer for negotiators to reach an agreement on including a work programme on agriculture in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. And... Read more »
December 12, 2012
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Africa: Youth Call for 'Change of Course' to Solve Climate Crisis
While world leaders were wrapping up the United Nations conference on climate change (COP 18) in Doha, Qatar this past weekend with the annual vague promise to tackle the enormous... Read more »
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South Africa: Chile Follows South Africa's Lead in Climate Change Mitigation
Chile is turning to South-South cooperation to help define the most effective strategies and options for reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the face of global climate... Read more »
December 5, 2012
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Africa: Africa Struggles for Food Security
Qatar may be one of the richest countries in the world, but it has something in common with its African counterparts - food insecurity. Read more »
November 29, 2012
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Africa: Africans in Bid to Save Kyoto
African negotiators attending the United Nations climate change talks in Doha, Qatar say they are determined to ensure that developed countries do not let the Kyoto Protocol die as... Read more »
November 27, 2012
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Africa: COP18, Another 'Conference of Polluters'? [interview]
Busani Bafana interviews political economist and also the director of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa Professor Patrick Bond Read more »
October 15, 2012
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Malawi: Heroines of the Floods
For many women in Malawi's disaster-prone southern district of Nsanje, resilience is essential to survive the cyclical flooding. Read more »
September 16, 2012
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West Africa: Fears for Food Security Rise With West African Floodwaters
Hundreds of thousands of people have been affected by heavy flooding along the Niger River over the last few weeks. Niger, Mali and Benin have been particularly hard hit, with... Read more »
August 31, 2012
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Senegal: Biomass Plant Lights Up Rural Senegal
A new power plant in the eastern Senegalese village of Kalom is generating more than just electricity. Powered by agricultural waste, the station has lit up homes, lightened... Read more »
August 28, 2012
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Burkina Faso: Filling the Granaries in Burkina Faso
The seeds were sown, and the harvest is beginning to come in. Burkina Faso farmers are reaping the benefits of their government's programme to develop and popularise improved... Read more »
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Africa: Smallholder Farmers Driving New Trend Against Climate Change [interview]
Small-scale irrigation schemes can provide the biggest opportunity for boosting food security in Africa, according to Meredith Giordano, the research director at the International... Read more »
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Ethiopia: 'The Truth Is That All Problems Have Solutions' - Even Climate Change
Eight years ago Kenbesh Mengesha earned an uncertain income collecting firewood from local government forests and selling them to her fellow slum-dwellers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.... Read more »
August 20, 2012
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Malawi: Livelihoods Drying Up on Lake Chilwa
Fisherfolk and farmers living near Malawi's second-largest water body, Lake Chilwa, are relocating en masse and scrambling for space around its shores as the lake has dried to... Read more »
August 1, 2012
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Zimbabwe: Trash Collectors Become Zimbabwe's Unlikely Climate Change Ambassadors [opinion]
Tomson Chikowero was ashamed of his job. He did not want anyone finding out what he did to earn a living, so he used to wake up early every morning and leave his home in Hatfield,... Read more »
July 27, 2012
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Africa: Africa Must Earn Its Climate Change Adaptation Finance
With the United Nations Climate Change Conference less than four months away, African countries need to present convincing arguments and successful adaptation projects to attract... Read more »
July 10, 2012
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Kenya: Mapping Out Climate Change Adaptation Plans On Kenya's Airwaves
On a Wednesday morning in Mutitu-Andei township in Makueni County, one of Kenya's driest areas, smallholder farmer Josephine Mutiso tunes into Radio Mang'elete 89.1 FM and listens... Read more »
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Africa: Youth-Friendly APPs Visualise Carbon Footprint
Following what many regard as a disappointment at the recent Rio+20 Earth Summit, the World Bank and several groups have begun implementing new initiatives to "personalise" climate... Read more »
March 30, 2012
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Chad: Mothers Breaking Apart Anthills in Search of Food
"Only God knows what will happen to me and my children - for two months there's been nothing to eat. We're living like beggars," Henriette Sanglar, a mother of four in the Moursal... Read more »
March 16, 2012
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South Africa: As the Dust Settles On the Limpopo River
Chapita Ramovha remembers the days when the Limpopo River lapped at the foot of his village in south Zimbabwe. He says that back then residents of Makakavhule village had to build... Read more »
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Morocco: 'Green Plan' Fails to Confront Climate Change
An unprecedented cold spell that struck Morocco in February and continues to linger well into March has raised serious questions about the country's national agricultural... Read more »
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