Climate change in Africa News

[The Herald] Thupeyo Muleya -- Beitbridge Bureau

[The Herald] Drought relief mitigation has been extended by Government for another month in the wake of the long dry spells this season, which have seen crops in some areas suffering from moisture stress and a likely low harvest in some districts, Senate heard last week.

[Shabelle] UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is scaling up assistance to thousands of people displaced by severe drought in Somalia following three consecutive failed rainy seasons that have decimated crops and livestock.

[Shabelle] The United Nations warned Wednesday that it faces a crippling lack of funds to tackle Somalia's devastating drought, which has been "overshadowed" by other humanitarian crises including the war in Ukraine.

[Egypt Online] Concluding her visit to the United Kingdom, Minister of International Cooperation Rania Al Mashat, held a meeting with Executive Director of the British International Investment (CDC) Diana Layfield, CEO of the Climate Investment Funds Mafalda Duarte, and Chief Executive of the UK's Export Finance Louis Taylor.

[Observer] Women and girls, especially those in rural communities, continue to face the brunt of climate change that worsens pre-existing inequalities, and jeopardizes their food security and feeds instability and migration, the United Nations World Food Program has warned on International Women's Day.

[Nyasa Times] Weather experts say eight of districts in southern region risk heavy rains starting on Friday due to tropical storm Gombe.

[RFI] Mother of six Mwandida Matias, 39, recalls the night they were hit by violent storms in Chikawa district, southern Malawi. People were shouting, others beating drums to alert people. By the time she managed to get out of the house with her children, the water was already up to her waist.

[VOA] Geneva -- The U.N. refugee agency said Friday that drought in Somalia was causing a humanitarian and displacement crisis, with thousands of people fleeing their parched lands in search of fertile territory and humanitarian assistance to help them survive.