Climate change in Africa News

[News24Wire] Cape Town -A 27-man Stormers touring squad left Cape Town on Sunday for a four-week Australasian tour.

[The Herald] PRESIDENT Mnangagwa returns home today, cutting short his visit of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to make sure he is directly involved with the national response to victims of Cyclone Idai disaster that has struck the country mainly in Manicaland, Mashonaland East and Masvingo.

[The Herald] For doubting Thomases, Tropical Cyclone Idai brings vital lessons that climate change is now with us. The deadly cyclone, whose effects were mainly felt in Manicaland, left death and destruction of property in its wake.

[New Zimbabwe] Most of the victims of cyclone Idai were killed by mudslides, falling rocks and trees, a Cabinet Minister has said.

[New Zimbabwe] VIllagers in the Midlands rural constituency of Silobela have resorted to cat and mouse games with wild animals to forage for food as effects of the drought take their toll, MP for the area Manoki Mpofu has said.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] London -A push to launch a high-level study of potentially risky technological fixes to curb climate change was abandoned on Thursday at a U.N. environmental conference in Nairobi, as countries including the United States raised objections.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Nairobi -Environmental damage caused by man-made activities is having a devastating toll on human health, the United Nations said on Wednesday, warning of millions of premature deaths due to air and water pollution by 2050 if action was not taken.

[IPS] Port of Spain -Trinidad and Tobago unveiled its monitoring, reporting and verification system in mid-March with a flourish, with government authorities underscoring the launch of the Monitoring, Reporting, Verification as a milestone in that country's efforts to reduce its emissions in line with its commitments under the 2016 Paris agreement.

[The Herald] President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared a State of Disaster in respect to areas in Manicaland province that were affected by Cyclone Idia, which has claimed 31 lives and displaced 200 people, most of them in Chimanimani and Chipinge.

[Deutsche Welle] UN agencies are aiding the rescue effort after tens of thousands of people were hit by floods across southeast Africa. The regional death toll has already reached 174 and hundreds more remain missing.

[RFI] As many as 100 people are reportedly missing in Zimbabwe following a cyclone that has killed at least 24 people.

[IPS] Rome -Friday, Mar. 15, hundreds of thousands of young people across the world took to the streets to join the climate strike. "We are demonstrating today for our planet and for our future. This is the place where we and those who come after us will live," Jennifer, a 16-year-old girl from Rome, the Italian capital, who opted to join the protests, told IPS.

[New Zimbabwe] Chimoio -The movement of cargo between Zimbabwe and port of Beira via Forbes border post is expected to be decrease this week as most transporters have opted to park their trucks in Chimoio as a strong tropical cyclone in a decade is expected to make a landfall in Mozambique at the end of the week, bringing devastating winds and floods to the central coastline.

[IPS] Melbourne -Not too long ago, the term "zero waste" was just one of those boring policy directives or catchphrases thrown around by governments.

[Deutsche Welle] About 530,000 residents of Beira were cut off as cyclone Idai made landfall late Thursday. The disaster hits after a week of flooding left 126 people dead across the region.

[IPS] Nairobi, Kenya -When Mandelena became a mother, she was only 16. During the prolonged dry season in Gwor County, South Sudan, her community saw crops failing and cattle dying. Children stopped going to school because of hunger and women and girls had to walk up to five hours every day to collect water.

[Ensia] Air travel has a gigantic carbon footprint. And, contrary to popular belief, carbon offsets do make a difference.

[News24Wire] Mozambique has been lashed by strong winds and widespread rain even as a tropical cyclone loses power after it made landfall in the country.

[allAfrica] A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to support the victims of floods that have left dozens dead and thousands displaced. Tropical cyclone Idai battered Mozambique's coastal city of Beira leaving its 530,000 residents cut off from the outside world after power cables were downed and communications severed.

[New Zimbabwe] At least four provinces in Zimbabwe are set to be affected negatively by a tropical cyclone expected to make landfall Sunday, the Meteorological Department has said.