Climate change in Africa News

[Nairobi News] The commuter train that plies from the CBD to Nairobi Terminus will not be operational on Tuesday, the Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) has announced.

[Nation] The ongoing heavy rains pounding various parts of the country have caused havoc in the North Rift region, resulting in displacement of several families and damage to infrastructure.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -The National Treasury has opened a three-month window to mobilize domestic and external resources to address the landslides and floods that have left at least 52 people dead in the last one week.

[Dalsan Radio] Save the Children's Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Ian Vale has said that that the climate crisis is further entrenching inequality, poverty and displacement across East and Southern Africa.

[New Dawn] The Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF) has approved a project proposal for a total of $997, 524 to support Benin and Lesotho to access international climate finance, an initiative underpinned by evidence that adaptation to climate change must start locally.

[Nyasa Times] The Least Developed Countries (LDCs) have asked their developed counterparts to commit themselves in cutting down on carbon emission saying its impact on climate change is more devastating on the LDCs.

[Nation] Several families in Western and Nyanza regions are counting losses following the heavy rains that have been experiences across the country.

[Daily Maverick] In September, lawyers and social movement activists met in Bellagio, Italy, to discuss how the power of law can be combined with the power of people to secure human rights and planetary safety. One of the many conversations that took place was between Farhana Yamin, veteran climate change lawyer and activist, and Mark Heywood, social justice activist and editor of Maverick Citizen. Their conversation was facilitated by feminist AIDS activist Robin Gorna.

[The Herald] Poor rains have delayed planting of the 2019-2020 summer crop posing fresh threats of a reduced crop yield for the current season.

[VOA] Millions of people in southern and eastern Africa are facing emergency food insecurity partly caused by climate change, half of them children, according to the charity Save the Children. The region has been hit by extreme cyclones, flooding and drought in recent months and scientists say it is warming much faster than other parts of the world.

[Premium Times] As the 25th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) begins in Madrid the Spanish capital, civil society and grassroots groups have challenged Parties negotiating at the 11-day conference to heed the demands of climate-impacted people around the world to advance real and just solutions to address the climate crisis.

[News24Wire] A Northern Cape village has not broken the record for the highest temperature ever recorded in South Africa, the South African Weather Service (SAWS) said this week.

[Nation] Hundreds of families have been left homeless while a 35-year-old man drowned as he tried to cross the flooded Kipkaren River in Nandi County as heavy rains continued in most parts of the country.

[Nation] Three men marooned on a small island nestled at a section of Athi River which passes through Yikivuthi Village in Makueni County spent the third day in the cold Monday amid desperate appeals for assistance.

[Nyasa Times] Malawi President Arthur Peter Mutharika has addressed the Conference of Parties (COP 25) in Madrid, Spain where he went to attend the UN climate Change Summit upon the invitation of the organizers, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

[Botswana Daily News] Gaborone -The Department of Meteorological Services says heavy rain accompanied by strong winds and lightning is expected to occur from Wednesday, December 4 to Friday, December 6, 2019.

[Nairobi News] As the current rains continue, residents of Nairobi have gotten a reality check on the city's pathetic drainage system.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -Health Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki has urged the stakeholders and partners to join hands in providing lasting solutions to tackle climate change.

[IPS] Madrid -A green economy is "not one to be feared but an opportunity to be embraced", UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday, in a keynote speech to delegates at the opening of the COP25 UN climate conference in Madrid on Monday.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Madrid -Leaders of Bangladesh and Marshall Islands highlight how rising seas are hitting their people hard, urging other countries to step up with more action on climate change