Climate change in Africa News

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] The African city is improving parks, adding urban forests, building more sidewalks and improving drainage to avoid floods

[Namibian] More than half of 363 suspects arrested for animal poaching or trafficking in 2020 were apprehended for crimes involving high-value animal species.

[263Chat] MUTARE- A local youth environment group has signed a global pledge to extend its environmental protection work in partnership with a United States of America based organization the U.S. Green Chamber of Commerce (USGCC).

[Radio Dabanga] Kassala / El Gedaref / River Nile -- 14 people have been reported dead in Kassala, El Gedaref, and River Nile state, after torrential rain and flooding hit Sudan yesterday.

[The Herald] THE SADC Council of Ministers meeting, which was held virtually yesterday resolved to work on an integrated approach to tackle hunger in the region.

[Nation] A vehicle was Thursday swept away by water along the Lodwar-Kakuma road after the 100-meter wide Kawalase River broke it banks.

[The Conversation Africa] International conservation is known for its pursuit of global, 'win-win' solutions that seek to simultaneously address multiple environmental and social issues. But few proposed solutions have offered as much hope, and been so energetically embraced, as REDD+.

[The Conversation Africa] Very few academics or policy makers are talking about the impact of climate change on heritage. Yet heritage is essential for social wellbeing, for identity creation, for safeguarding traditional knowledge and livelihoods and for sustainable development.

[Ensia] With Covid-19 upending conventional sources of conservation funding, conservationists are rethinking how to fund their work.

[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA - Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Ethiopia will nurture one billion tree seedlings to be planted in neighboring countries as part of its 'green legacy' campaign next year.

[SAnews.gov.za] The Department of Water and Sanitation says rising spring temperatures are causing the country's dam levels to continue to drop week-on-week.

[Nation] A 5.9 magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Tanzania on Wednesday evening hit several areas in the Coast region and parts of Nairobi.

[Premium Times] The Nigerian government is developing a gender-based plan that aims to address the vulnerability of Nigerian women to climate change, the Minister of Environment, Mohammad Mahmood, has said.

[Daily Trust] Kano -- National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has revealed that a report from the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) and the Nigerian Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) on the seasonal rainfall prediction has classified 20 out of the 44 local government areas in Kano State under high risk probable areas to flooding.

[Govt of SA] For the second successive week, the Vaal Dam in the Integrated Vaal River System (IVRS) remains below the neutral 50% mark and remains unchanged from last week's 41.6%.

[SAnews.gov.za] Persistent downpours during the past weekend have yielded a slight increase in the Western Cape dam systems, said the Department of Water and Sanitation.

[The Point] "People who will not sustain trees will soon live in a world that will not sustain people". Therefore, trees are important for human survival.

[Premium Times] The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Tuesday warned that no fewer than eight million residents of Lagos State were prone to flood disaster.

[Leadership] The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Tuesday warned that no fewer than eight million residents of Lagos State were prone to flood disaster.

[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA - Afar State Disaster Prevention and Food Security Program Coordination Office announced that additional 32,839 people are still vulnerable to flood accident that has been affecting many occurred this month caused by overflow of the Awash River.