Climate change in Africa News

[The Herald] Government has reaffirmed its commitment to settling the outstanding $5 million compensation owed to 1 500 families displaced by flooding in the Tugwi-Mukosi basin four years ago.

[Vanguard] Yenagoa -EMBATTLED residents of communities still submerged by flood in Bayelsa State currently use hand-propelled canoes to go into their houses and perform household tasks.

[The Conversation Africa] Numerous rivers criss-cross the length and breadth of Nigeria, running both east-west and north-south. The country is also the flood plain of the transboundary Niger and Benue Rivers, which have a number of upstream dams in other countries. The Niger River is by far the most important River in West Africa. It's also the third longest in Africa, with a length of about 4,200 kilometres. Its hydrological basin covers an enormous area.

[UNEP] New research from C40 Cities, the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy and the New Climate Institute shows that climate action, such as doubling bus network coverage and frequency in cities, could prevent the premature deaths of over one million people per year from air pollution and traffic accidents.

[The Herald] The national dam levels have declined to an average 75,5 percent due to rising temperatures, but the water is still sufficient to meet the domestic and irrigation requirements, the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) said last week.

[The Herald] President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared that climate change "respects no borders" and called on world governments to act with speed to prevent the potential dangerous impacts of the science, especially on the developing world.

[Daily Trust] Yenagoa -The National Emergency Management Agency yesterday said 150,000 persons were displaced by the recent flood in Bayelsa State.

[Guardian] Property owners trying to sell their properties in flood-hit parts of the country are yielding to pressure to drop prices as demands for homes in some of the affected locations have reduced drastically, The Guardian investigation has revealed.

[Leadership] The European Union, EU, has commended Nigeria for its efforts at combating climate change. The EU Head of Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Kertil Karlsen made this disclosure, Monday, at the opening of the EU Climate Change Diplomatic Week at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.

[Premium Times] No fewer than 150,000 persons have been displaced by flood in Bayelsa, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Sunday disclosed.

[Premium Times] Okechukwu Osadebe, the 18-year-old son of late highlife maestro, Stephen Osadebe, has lost his life in the ravaging Anambra flood.

[Leadership] Okechukwu Osadebe, 18-year-old son of late highlife maestro, Chief Stephen Osadebe, has lost his life in a flood disaster in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra.

[Daily Trust] The National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has identified communities in four states and Abuja as locations where major earthquake may occur in the country.

[Nairobi News] The late Wednesday afternoon rains in Nairobi's CBD may have caught many city residents unawares, but its a weather pattern that they may have to get used to in the coming days.

[Premium Times] Flood, caused by a heavy downpour, have killed two farm labourers in Enugu State.

[News24Wire] Oudtshoorn farmers, who had their own Day Zero almost a year ago when their irrigation dams dried up, have suffered losses of hundreds of millions of rands in lost production.

[Citizen] Climate change continues to cause suffering across the globe. Too much rain causing floods, lack of rainfall leading to drought and very high or very low temperatures are some of the adverse effects of climate change.

[Government of Mauritius] The Adapt'Action programme of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) aimed at providing technical assistance to countries seeking technical assistance for the institutional, methodological and operational implementation of their commitments to the fight against climate change was launched yesterday at the seat of the Ministry of Social Security, National Solidarity, and Environment and Sustainable Development in Port Louis.

[Nation] Coast residents have been warned to be on high alert following expected heavy rains in the region.

[UN News] A variety of "festering" causes and effects surround crises around the world, Nigeria's President, Muhammadu Buhari, said on Tuesday, speaking on the first day of the high-level portion of the United Nations General Assembly's annual general debate.