Climate change in Africa News

[The Herald] Government has identified a temporary site to accommodate flood victims and mobilised resources to assist the affected families mainly in Nsungwale under Chief Sinakoma's area here.

[The Herald] Rains that are falling countrywide might have come as a blessing to most people, especially farmers, but for motorists in Harare, they are slowly becoming a curse as potholes proliferate and the clay used to temporarily fill the holes is washed away.

[The Herald] A headman drowned in Mbire, while at least 13 learners at Chitenje Secondary School in Karoi were yesterday struck and injured by lightning as heavy rains wreak havoc in different parts of the country.

[Daily News] THE Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA) has warned residents of 12 regions to brace for heavy rains in the next two days, saying they should take extra precautions.

[This Day] All stakeholders should take advantage of Nimet's forecast

[AIM] Maputo -Chimoio (Mozambique), 13 Feb (AIM) - Torrential rains in the central Mozambican province of Manica have cut off the Dombe administrative post and Mossurize district from the rest of the province.

[WHO] Enhancing capacity of Zimbabwe's Health System to respond to climate change induced drought.

[IFAD] The International Fund for Agricultural Development of the United Nations (IFAD) today announced support for a new project to increase incomes, improve food and nutrition security and build the resilience of at least 34,800 rural farmers of Sao Tome and Principe, an island country highly affected by climate change.

[The Herald] Heavy rains have caused extensive damage to infrastructure in Binga and Chimanimani where they destroyed 181 homes and swept away two bridges.

[New Zimbabwe] At least 11 villagers have spent the past threes days perched in trees while 21 families are marooned with no food or water desperately waiting for help after heavy rains fell in Binga District, Matabeleland North, a Cabinet Minister has confirmed.

[The Conversation Africa] History may in due course record 2019 as the year in which the penny finally dropped about the climate emergency humanity faces. A sense of urgency was triggered last year by both Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg's courage in challenging world leaders to take the crisis seriously, and the apocalyptic fires that engulfed large parts of Australia recently.

[Nyasa Times] Weather experts have issued a red light warning for severe weather conditions from today in the south, central and lakeshore areas.

[UNEP] Facing the extinction of 1 million plant and animal species, countries are working on a plan to stop biodiversity loss. A draft plan being developed under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity calls for urgent action to stop biodiversity decline.

[Daily Maverick] Despite meetings, countless reports, attempts to fix it and even criminal charges, the sewage problem in Graaff-Reinet has become extremely serious, with residents now asking that drought funding be channelled to fix the collapsing infrastructure instead. This comes after millions allocated to the municipality to fix the town's sewerage system was spent on drought relief instead.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] London -Failure to act on climate-related threats could create a "potentially uncontrollable situation in the future if we don't act very soon"

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Rome -Despite producing half of the world's food calories, most small-scale food producers cannot access loans, while hunger and poverty are increasingly concentrated where they live and work

[Addis Standard] The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and partners appealed for urgent scaling up of response actions by all actors to mitigate the devastating impact of the Desert Locust on food security and livelihoods in the Horn of Africa.

[Daily Trust] South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, said African countries are already spending between 2 and 9 percentage of their GDP on addressing extreme climatic events that are already taking place at an accelerated pace.

[Daily News] EAST African Community (EAC) partner states have been directed to enforce relevant laws to effectively ban the manufacture and use of plastic carrier bags with immediate effect.

[New Zimbabwe] Hundreds of villagers are marooned between rivers in Binga's Siabua and surrounding areas with some perched in trees after heavy rains fell in the Matabeleland North's district Monday night.