Climate change in Africa News

[Dalsan Radio] A picture of past drought which saw several animals die due to lack of pasture and water

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[Seychelles News Agency] Seychelles is one of 187 countries that approved a United Nation's plastic waste pact aimed at reducing pollution from plastic waste.

[UNEP] An interview with Abshir H Abshir is Executive Director, Centre for the Rule of Law and Development. Based in Garowe, the capital of Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region, Abshir is also a former ambassador to Burundi and a former member of the country's national parliament. He recently attended a ten-week online Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace course organized by UN Environment, the Environmental Law Institute, the University of California - Irvine, Duke University and Columbia University.

[New Era] Swakopmund -Governor of the Erongo Region Cleophas Mutjavikua and several councillors in the region have appealed to government to avail farms belonging to the Namibian Defence Force (NDF) for resettlement purposes.

[Ghanaian Times] Navrongo -PA severe rainstorm hit the Kassena-Nankana Municipality and its soundings last Tuesday night, ripping off roofs of government school buildings and houses of individuals, resulting in destruction of properties.

[IPS] London -The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services' report on the global state of biodiversity is shocking but not entirely surprising. The question is, how much more evidence and repeated warnings will it take for governments, companies and financial institutions to wake up to the urgency and act?

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Bulawayo -As severe drought has decimated maize crops across much of Zimbabwe, farmers are trying out new ways to cope with a more extreme climate

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Isiolo -Explaining to pastoralists via local media how index-based insurance can protect them from climate stresses is persuading them to buy it

[New Era] ONGWEDIVA - The ongoing drought which is causing displeasure of animal movement in the country could be the cause of the recently reported outbreak of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) in Oshikoto Region.

[Namibian] THE Agricultural Bank of Namibia (Agribank) has offered farmers in arrears with payments a debt relief package that requires them to pay 45% of the arrears, and the bank would capitalise the balance.

[UNEP] "Supposing doesn't fill the grain basket; if doesn't fill the larder." This African proverb sends an equivocal message - to see a change, we must act.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] By addressing the whole system by which we grow, buy, and eat our food, we can achieve multiple wins to maintain biodiversity for planetary and human health

[IPS] Paris -An alarming report about the massive loss of biodiversity around the world warns that future generations will be at risk if urgent action isn't taken to protect the more than one million species of plants and animals threatened with extinction.

[The New Humanitarian] Samburu County/Kenya -Editor's note

[Observer] Some Nimbaians observe

[CAJ News] Maputo -SUCCESSIVE cyclones that have destroyed health infrastructure have left thousands of individuals living with HIV/AIDS at high risk

[Ghanaian Times] Two persons have been reported dead at Sherigu-Basungo in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region, following the recent rainstorm that hit the area last Tuesday.

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -African governments should collaborate with private sector and other stakeholders to work together to build preparedness to overcome climate change and poverty.

[Namibian] by Ndanki Kahiurika, by Adam Hartman, by Tuyeimo Haidula, by Luqman Cloete