The Kenya Meteorological Department has warned that there will be a possibility of heavy rainfall and flooding in 15 counties in the first week of December, 2020. In the advisory, ... Read more »
Vanessa Nakate, a young climate activist from Uganda has written a letter asking U.S. president-elect Joe Biden and vice-president elect Kamala Harris what they are going to do ... Read more »
Africa is likely to be the continent hit hardest by climate change. The region is vulnerable to droughts, heat, and floods and many countries have a ... Read more »
Cape Town faces an 80% higher chance of another 'Day Zero' drought by the end of the century if greenhouse gas emissions keep rising at current rates, as the South African city ... Read more »
Kenya's Riting and Reres areas in West Pokot County have been nicknamed Kosovo, for the bloodshed that the community has endured for decades, due to cattle rustling and banditry. ... Read more »
South Africa is among the 30th most water-stressed countries in the world. Since the beginning of the 2010s, the country has been trapped in a series of multi-year droughts, ... Read more »
Fishers in Lake Turkana near Loiyangalani town in Marsabit County use spears or harpoons, fishing rods and nets made from doum palm fibre to catch fish in this desert lake, but ... Read more »
Africa needs to prepare better for climate change by responding to a wide range of potential risks, a multi-agency report led by the UN World Meteorological Organization says.The ... Read more »
Recently, news reports revealed plans by a Canadian oil and gas company, ReconAfrica, to explore for oil and gas in some of Africa's most sensitive protected areas. These areas ... Read more »
Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), delivered the 10th Annual Desmond Tutu Peace Lecture on 7 ... Read more »
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