Climate change in Africa News

[Monitor] Kasese municipality mayor, Mr Godfrey Kabbyanga, has called on government to get back to the drawing board and find a serious investor who can take over management of Kilembe mines after it has been ravaged by floods.

[New Zimbabwe] As Zimbabwe, which was last year ravaged by the tropical storm, Cyclone Idai early recovers from the climate-induced disaster, affected communities should adopt smart agriculture as a road to rebuilding affected ecosystems, a top environmentalist has suggested.

[Nation] Farmers and residents living along the River Suam in West Pokot County are counting huge losses as hunger looms after their crops and property were destroyed by floods.

[Monitor] Residents of Kasese District in western Uganda woke up on Sunday to the second wave of flash floods after three days of the torrents that hit the district when four major rivers burst their banks at 1am on Thursday.

[Monitor] More than 100,000 people have been affected by floods that hit Kasese District on Thursday destroying gardens, bridges, schools, houses and other properties.

[Nation] Some 50,000 people have been displaced by floods in four counties in western Kenya, the largest number in the past six decades.

[CAJ News] Harare -Japan has announced an additional US$14,8 million (R272,3 million) to ensure food security to vulnerable populations in Zimbabwe.

[CAJ News] Lilongwe -After successive years of food crises aggravated by extreme drought and flooding, things are looking up for Malawi, which is anticipating the highest output of the staple maize in five years.

[Daily Trust] Bauchi -A windstorm has destroyed a newly renovated primary school building in Dabe village in Ganjuwa Local Government Area of Bauchi State.

[UNEP] The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) stands with those suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic. UNEP is responding in a number of ways, including by supproting global efforts to protect biodiversity, to put an end to the illegal trade in wildlife, to safeguard the handling of chemicals and waste and to promote economic recovery plans that take nature and the climate emergency into account. This article is one of several highlighting UNEP's duty to help nations build back better after the pandemic t

[Shabelle] At least 16 people have died while more than 200,000 others have been affected by torrential rains and riverine floods since the Gu (April-June) rains started in Somalia a month ago, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wednesday.

[FrontPageAfrica] Barnesville -David Wesseh, a resident of Kebbah, appears confused after his two houses were unroofed by a heavy storm. Wesseh, his wife and his seven children are being accommodated by friends not far from where his roofless houses stand, but he is worried that he and his family could catch coronavirus.

[New Times] The Ministry of Emergency Management (MINEMA) says that heavy rains that pounded different parts of the country on the night of Wednesday, May 6, claimed the lives of fifty-five people and destroyed a number of properties in six districts across the country.

[IPS] Caracas -The oil slump, global recession and uncertainty about the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic will fuel the appetite for cheaper fossil fuel energy and delay investments in renewables, affecting the targets of the Paris Agreement on climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

[Nation] The government may have to evacuate families living on Remba and other islands in Lake Victoria as the water reaches alarming levels, local leaders have said.

[Monitor] At least 500 families from seven Sub-counties in Busia District are in urgent need of shelter and food after surging water volumes on Lake Victoria and floods razed their homes.

[Monitor] Flash floods have again hit Kasese district cutting off Kasese-Fort Portal main road at Nyamwamba Bridge.

[New Times] Heavy rains that ravaged many parts of the country Wednesday night claimed the lives of at least 17 people in just two districts.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -Security forces have started moving people in flood-prone areas to safer grounds following imminent danger posed by the ongoing rains across the country.

[Nairobi News] Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa has said at least 194 people have been killed by floods being experienced in different parts of the country.