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Africa: 2022 Is Africa's Year to Lead the World On Climate Change
African Arguments, 12 January 2022
The COP27 climate summit on African soil will be the continent's chance to put the needs of vulnerable nations above the interests of rich countries. Read more »
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Madagascar: The Forgotten, Cascading Crisis in Madagascar #AfricaClimateCrisis
African Arguments, 18 January 2022
The world's first famine caused by climate change rather than conflict continues amid insufficient domestic and global attention. Read more »
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Tanzania: Drought Kills Over 98,000 Livestock in Tanzania
Daily News, 17 January 2022
A total of 98,000 livestock from different parts of the country have died due to prolonged draughts. Read more »
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Namibia: Informal Settlement Houses Flooded
New Era, 18 January 2022
Residents of Windhoek's informal settlements are once again suffering losses after the heavy downpours in the capital over the weekend. Read more »
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Egypt: Egypt, UK Reaffirm Commitment to Boosting Climate Change Action
Egypt Online, 15 January 2022
Egypt, UK reaffirm commitment to boosting climate change action Read more »
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Malawi: Climate Change Undermining Girls' Education #AfricaClimateCrisis
MBC, 8 January 2022
For many years, the rainy season in Malawi starts from October to April, but this year, the season has delayed by at least two months, with some unusual hit waves hitting… Read more »
2022 Africa's Year to Lead the World On Climate Change
Unlike COP26, the COP27 Climate Summit on African soil will be the continent's chance to put the needs of vulnerable nations above the interests of rich countries. Despite contributing almost none of the greenhouse gasses that drive the climate crisis, Africa experiences the bitter injustice of climate change, writes Mohamed Adow for African Arguments. From the drought gripping the East, the shrinking Lake Chad in the West, the floods that have devastated South Sudan to the Mozambican communities still not recovered from Cyclone Idai two years on, African countries suffer climate change's most brutal consequences.
The Egyptian government has increased preparations for the COP27 Climate Summit, which it will host in Sharm el-Sheikh at the end of 2022. This is a chance to push for the demands of African nations and set timetables to meet national obligations in lowering harmful emissions.
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It has been eight months since flooding began in Unity State in northern South Sudan. People continue to suffer - stuck in poor living conditions and at risk of outbreaks of infectious and waterborne diseases. Spread across several makeshift campsites, they face food insecurity, a loss of income, malnutrition, and a lack of safe drinking water. An estimated 835,000 people have been affected.
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A week ago, a dark cloud of desert locusts floated over the city of Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland. For more than 40 minutes the moving swarm of locusts covered the city in the Galgodon valley. The Intergovernmental Authority on Development's climate Prediction & Applications Centre, said it is concerned that along with the perennial acute food insecurity in the region, climate shocks and conflict, these countries face extended hunger threats from the locusts.
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Countries of the global South, which are already facing the worst impacts of the climate emergency, have expressed their deep disappointment about how the COP26 talks unfolded.
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At the COP26 summit, African countries are pushing for more money to protect against climate change. But even if further financing is pledged, they still face significant hurdles accessing the funds.
Vanessa Nakate, a young black Ugandan climate activist called out leaders for the failed promises of past climate summits. She challenges world leaders to show
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More than 130 world leaders who gathered at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, have pledged to co-operate and reverse land degradation and forest loss by 2030 by signing the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forests and Land Use. Among these, 12 nations promised to make U.S.$12 billion available for climate finance between 2021 and 2025 in a new Global Forest Finance Pledge.
An additional U.S.$1.5 billion has been pledged to protect the forests of the Congo Basin, a critically important
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One year after Cyclone Idai devastated parts of Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, and tens of thousands of people are still trapped in appalling conditions with inadequate shelter or sanitation, reports Amnesty International.
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