Climate change in Africa News

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Kuala Lumpur -- Rich countries must deliver on a promise to channel $100 billion a year in climate finance to developing nations, otherwise they may jeopardise November's critical negotiations to limit global warming, said the head of the U.N.-backed Green Climate Fund.

[The Conversation Africa] One of the world's most spectacular marine migrations is the KwaZulu-Natal sardine run. The so-called "greatest shoal on Earth" takes place during the southern hemisphere's winter. It involves the movement of tens to hundreds of millions of sardines from the warm-temperate waters of South Africa's south coast to the subtropical waters of the east coast, over a thousand kilometres away.

[Premium Times] Although the fisheries industry has greatly suffered from environmental impacts, illegal fishing and weak governance, climate change-driven crises have completely changed the game.

[Nation] Kenya, like other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, is suffering the devastating impacts of drought. Kenya Red Cross reports that 2.1 million Kenyans are experiencing hunger and water scarcity as a result.

[VOA] Nairobi -- The U.S. government says it wants to partner with African countries to combat climate change.

[Chatham House] There is never a good time for a financial crisis. It is a double tragedy when it comes amid a health and climate crisis.

[Chatham House] We asked experts around the world to tell us one issue that must be tackled at COP26. Here is what they have said.

[VOA] Geneva -- The United Nations is issuing a $139-million flash appeal to provide assistance to 1.3 million people in Kenya hardest hit by a severe drought.

[UNFPA] Empowered women and girls have the capacity to build resilient communities using local solutions to climate change to safeguard lives and ensure a sustainable future for all. But not enough is being done.

[IMF] Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) met today with African Ministers of Finance and representatives from the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) to discuss Africa's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the efforts for a sustainable, green, and inclusive recovery. At the conclusion of the meeting, Ms. Georgieva made the following statement:

[East African] Juba -- At least twenty people have died in South Sudan's Warrap State as a result of continuous devastating floods, a senior State official has confirmed.

[This Day] Damaturu and Uyo -- A total of 6,573 farmers across 11 local government areas of Yobe State are expected to benefit from agricultural intervention by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to support those affected by flood.

[Monitor] Three people died on spot after they were struck by lightning at Kamuserwa cell, Nyarurambi ward in Rubanda Town Council, Rubanda District.

[The Herald] The long-running stand-off between Sese villagers in Chivi's ward 20 and diamond extractor, Murowa Diamond Company, continues to take new twists and turns as the local community has started constructing a boarding school that is set to revolutionise education for the community.

[263Chat] When I was eight years old, a severe drought devastated my small village in Zimbabwe. A blistering heatwave dried up our river; it destroyed our crops, killed our livestock and left us starving. One day I was so weak from hunger that I collapsed onto the ground. In fact, in my young mind, I thought I was going to die. Fortunately, a fellow African who worked for the United Nations found me. She gave me a bowl of porridge and saved my life.

[Namibian] NAMIBIAN marine researchers are not part of the Benguela upwelling system climate-change research carried out by the German research vessel Sonne.

[263Chat] The Environmental Management Agency (EMA) says it is yet to receive an environmental impact assessment report from Heijin Mining Company, a Chinese mining company, which is on the verge of displacing several villagers from their ancestral land in Uzumba Maramba-Pfungwe.

[Ghanaian Times] Yabraso -- At least 46 communities have been cut off from the rest of the Bono East Region after torrential rains washed the only bridge at Yabraso that links Kintampo and New Longolo, thereby affecting the local economy and livelihoods of the residents.

[Nation] The drought ravaging arid and semi-arid parts of the country now threatens to wipe out livestock.

[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa's revised Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, submitted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, requires an equally ambitious multilateral commitment of financial support by developed countries.