Climate change in Africa News

[263Chat] The Chinese government under the South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund has provided additional assistance to victims of Cyclone Idai through a reconstruction fund aimed at rebuilding schools and clinics.

[Namibian] THE Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform has launched an internal investigation into the drilling and installation of boreholes meant to mitigate the impact of last year's drought.

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia (EPA) is expected to commence a two-day consultative meeting on Friday, July 10, 2020 to launch the development of Liberia's Green Climate Fund (GCF) Country Program document.

[Daily Maverick] Nelson Mandela Bay's combined dam capacity has fallen to below 20% and its biggest supply dam has dropped to 7% as the municipality considers tighter water restrictions. While the municipality has always insisted that a water canal bringing water from the Gariep Dam will be the city's lifeline if the dams run dry, fears are being now raised over the stability of this structure that failed catastrophically in 2017, but was given only a temporary fix.

[SciDev.Net] Accra -- Nigerian maize and poultry farmers and traders' activities contribute to climate change, but only 14 per cent of them realise it, a study has found.

[SciDev.Net] Nairobi -- Local and international donors are investing more in industrial agricultural projects to the detriment of interventions that simultaneously transform food systems and protect the environment, a report says.

[SciDev.Net] Grassy ecosystems are under fire. Aisling Irwin investigates the world's booming tree campaigns.

[Daily Maverick] New research confirms that extreme droughts amid the deepening climate crisis are forcing nocturnal aardvarks in the Kalahari to feed and forage when the sun's up -- but even so, their ant and termite food sources are dying out as the vegetation they survive on is affected by the droughts.

[Daily Maverick] The Covid-19 crisis is a (hopefully) once-in-a-century shock to the global economy that can make a critical impact on the climate crisis. Any fiscal response needs to place the largest emphasis on putting money into the hands of the poorest, and green policies can do that.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The National Institute of Meteorology (INM), on Tuesday, announced the launch of its first free Android application, allowing to receive weather forecasts and alerts instantly.

[The Point] Flooding in is an annual problem in The Gambia especially communities settling in low lying terrains.

[Ensia] Some things we're glad to see grow: trees, children, our bank account balance, goodwill. But other things, not so much.

[Monitor] Whenever the skies open, transport and businesses in most parts of Kampala comes to a halt.

[Daily Maverick] A major consequence of overpopulation and the climate crisis is that wildlife has had to adapt to living in a new proximity to human beings. The increased contact between humans and wild animals has massively increased outbreaks of infectious zoonotic diseases like Covid-19.

[Daily Maverick] Only R5m of a R30m grant for drought relief provided to the Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality, based in Graaff-Reinet, was spent. The rest of it cannot be traced. This was one of the findings made by the auditor-general in a report on the municipality's finances for the 2018/2019 financial year.

[Cameroon Tribune] Persistent Torrential downpour has left the city in a sea of water with differing fortunes on inhabitants.

[Premium Times] The Ogun State Government on Sunday ordered residents living along river channels to relocate with immediate effect to avoid the ravages of flood.

[Premium Times] The Nigerian Meteorological Agency has predicted thunderstorms and rains from Tuesday to Friday across the nation.

[The Herald] Soil erosion represents a downward spiral of degradation of the land -- soil erodes, which means less fertile soil, which means plants grow less vigorously, which means less ground cover, which then means more erosion etc. On and on it goes.

[Monitor] Nakasongola -- Flash floods have submerged a section of the Lwampanga Health Centre IV in Nakasongola District , paralysing normal operations at the maternity unit .