Climate change in Africa News

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Across Africa, the climate crisis is happening to us now, and the stories Africans have to tell are urgent - but who is listening?

[Addis Standard] Cash transfer aimed at Enabling beneficiaries to meet their immediate needs and to kick-start productive activities

[Observer] "The wetland is there to protect us," he continued, "but sadly, we are clearing it so that little eruption from the oceans may cause the unthinkable and unimaginable disaster for us here," says EPA Executive Director Nathaniel Blama

[News24Wire] Global temperatures for December and January were especially hot, data from international organisations shows.

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -Tanzania Railway Corporation (TRC) says it has suspended its central line route after a 120km railway section between Morogoro and Dodoma damaged by the ongoing rains.

[Nairobi News] Kenyans have only one month to prepare for rains which will be heavier than is normally the case during the March to May long rains season.

[Nyasa Times] The Roads Authority (RA) has confirmed that part of the Mzuzu-Karonga M1 road has been affected by a landslide, following heavy rains the northern region has experiencing.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] The $570 billion fast-food sector is increasingly vulnerable to impacts of global warming but climate and water risks often ignored

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Dakar -Transitioning to agroecology will involve planting trees on farms, diversifying crop production, using organic fertilisers and rotating crops to improve soil quality

[Namibia Economist] Members of the Green Climate Fund Secretariat recently came to Namibia and paid visits to some conservancies including Sorris Sorris Conservancy, !Khoro !Goreb Conservancy, ǂKhoadi ||Hoas Conservancy and Ehirovipuka Conservancy.

[Vanguard] Not many commentators would give a pass mark to our public institutions in terms of creating value and delivering on their mandates.

[New Era] Namibian Livestock Producers' Organisation chairperson Thinus Pretorius says despite good rains received in most parts of the country, more rain is still needed to break the current drought that has ravaged the country for the past seven years.

[Namibian] DROUGHT seems to have become a permanent part of Southern Africa's weather patterns, but many farmers are still caught unaware, and suffer accordingly.

[This Day] Abuja -Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) has alerted the government, stakeholders and all citizens to use this period of dry season to prepare ahead for 2020 flooding.

[The Herald] EFFORTS to relocate victims of Cyclone Idai still living in tents have gathered pace, with Chimanimani Rural District Council now completing the pegging of stands at Nhedziwa Growth Point.

[New Zimbabwe] The power supply situation in Zimbabwe remains constrained as government was still failing to improve the situation, cabinet has said.

[New Times] The number of confirmed deaths from torrential rains across the country since Sunday has risen to 19 after authorities initially put the number at 13 on Sunday, February 2.

[Daily Maverick] The Department of Water Affairs has said that municipalities in drought-stricken areas in the Eastern Cape are allowed to limit emergency water supplies to 10l a person a day as the crisis continues in rural parts of the province. Despite good rains falling in some parts, the dire water shortage in many towns has been made worse by load shedding and vandalism as desperate people break open pipes and reservoirs.

[New Times] The ongoing heavy downpour may jeopardise food security in the coming months and keep inflation on the rise. Currently, farmers are in a post-harvest season which, according to analysts, will be a tough moment.

[Nation] The ongoing rains continue to wreak havoc across the country with deaths and destruction of homes and infrastructure, including roads and bridges.