Climate change in Africa News

[New Era] With swathes of grassland destroyed and hundreds of livestock burned to death, wildfires have brought misery and anguish to communal farmers in the Omaheke region.

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia (EPA), Professor Wilson K. Tarpeh has renewed the entity's commitment in the fight against climate change, which impacts remain visible across the country.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Pushing back against dirty shipping could lead to big strides against climate change

[Nation] Environmentalist and climate experts are conducting research to establish the cause of rising lakes within the Rift Valley region.

[The Herald] Stakeholders in the climate change sector have been encouraged to develop bankable projects as a way of unlocking climate finance for its compatible development.

[Nation] An estimated 30,000 households in Turkana County risk a humanitarian crisis as authorities warn of looming floods due to an expected spill over at the Turkwel hydro-power dam.

[Malawi News Agency] Nsanje District Council has started reviewing its disaster contingency plan as one way of enhancing effective and timely response to possible disasters.

[New Zimbabwe] Victoria Falls -- Residents in some parts of Mkhosana high-density suburb are complaining that their homes have been turned into permanent havens for "big" cockroaches due to lack of proper sewer system as they all use septic tanks in the area.

[Daily Trust] The Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, says plans are on to develop maize varieties that can withstand flood and remain in water for up to 14 days.

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -- The Tanzania Meteorological Authority (TMA) has on Wednesday, October 21 said that the rainy season will start mid November, forecasting that regions in the central and southern zones of the country will experience normal to above normal rains.

[Nation] The Madaraka Express passenger train was on Wednesday delayed for an hour at Ndii sub-station following an earth tremor that was reported in Voi area in Taita Taveta on Tuesday night.

[AIM] Maputo -- Storms, torrential rains and swollen rivers claimed 22 lives in the first three weeks of the 2020-2021 rainy season, according to Mozambican government spokesperson and Deputy Justice Minister, Filimao Suaze.

[263Chat] In patriarchal societies, voluntary palliative care even for young people, is a social service largely performed by women, while men are off trudging with more exerting physical occupations.

[This Day] David-Chyddy Eleke, who took a tour of some flood-ravaged communities in Anambra State, reports that locals of the affected areas now live a life not fit for humans

[Nation] Leaders in Turkana County have raised fears of massive destruction of property and displacement of more than 300,000 people with the Turkwel Dam having attained a 92 percent capacity by Monday morning.

[Ghanaian Times] Tamale -- The Stanbic Bank Ghana has donated large quantities of relief items to eleven flood-affected communities in the Kumbungu and Savelugu districts in the Northern Region.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican relief agency, the National Disaster Management Institute (INGC), in partnership with the community risk management committees, is putting in place preventive efforts in response to the rainy season, which begins in October, said on Monday the INGC delegate in the northern province of Nampula, Alberto Armando.

[Addis Fortune] The massive infestation of desert locusts that farmers in Ethiopia are faced with is the latest in a perpetually precarious position the country finds itself in. When photos and reports of the swarm colouring the rural landscape surfaces on social media, showing farmers left to their own devices in attempting to chase away the locusts from their crops, the utter absence of the state to respond to collective tribulations was glaring. It should not have been a surprise visitor at all. All the signals were th

[This Day] As humanity grapples with the impact of climate change on food production, experts have determined that a sure way out of the challenge is through the use of cutting-edge technology.

[Ghanaian Times] The good old book, "The Bible," says, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." The 31st verse of the opening account of creation has it that "God saw all that he had made, and it was excellent. And there was evening, and there was morning--the sixth day."