Climate change in Africa News

[SNA] Khartoum -Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Ambassador Omar Bashir Manis, chaired today's morning the first meeting of the Supreme Committee for the Autumn Emergency for the year 2020, during which Lit. Gen. (Police) Terifi Idris Dafullah, the Interior Minister, presented features of the civil defense plan for facing the rainy season of the year 2020.

[New Times] Rwanda Water Resources Board is set to establish telemetry stations to monitor the trends or peak flow of rivers, drainages and other flood hotspots as part of early warning systems aimed at minimizing the likely impacts of floods and plan for flood-resilient infrastructure.

[New Zimbabwe] Zimbabwe is among four Southern African countries worst affected by hunger.

[Nation] Three people have been killed after being swept away by raging flood waters in Bomet County.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] From Uganda to Russia to the Pacific islands, youth campaigners take digital a global strike planned before the coronavirus crisis

[Zimbabwe Standard] Zimbabwe's production of cash crops will take a serious dip this year following a prolonged dry spell during the second half of the rainy season and this is likely to add pressure on the country's foreign currency reserves, it has emerged.

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[Nairobi News] The Kenya Meteorological Department has said that the heavy rainfall being experienced in most parts of the country will reduce from the beginning of May.

[Nation] The government will give Sh50,000 to each of the families that lost their loved ones during landslides and flash floods in Chesegon along Marakwet-Pokot border a week ago.

[Nation] The Kenya Meteorological Department has said that the heavy rains being experienced in most parts of the country will reduce starting May 1.

[Nation] Collins Rutto, 21, was in deep thought, wondering what to do next after the government called off the search for people missing after last Saturday's landslides and flash floods in Chesogon along Marakwet-Pokot border.

[The Herald] The 2019/20 cropping season hectarage for maize has suffered a five percent decline to around 1,5 million hectares from the 1,6 million planted in the 2018/19 season, while the area under traditional grains increased significantly countrywide.

[New Times] Three people were killed by heavy rains that pounded several parts of the country on Friday night.

[New Times] Three people were killed by heavy rains that pounded several parts of the country on Friday night.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -The Government has set aside Sh1.7 million to be distributed among 35 households that lost their loved ones during the recent landslide tragedy at the border of Elgeyo Marakwet and West Pokot Counties.