Climate change in Africa News

[Deutsche Welle] Adapting to the impacts of climate change is expensive. How can poorer regions manage? Mayors of Mozambique's coastal cities show how they are preparing for severe storms and rising sea levels with limited resources.

[Daily News] Mwanza -UNION celebrations were bitter in some parts of Sengerema District as the authorities report loss of five people who perished as a result of heavy rains that pounded the area.

[Guardian] Asaba -This is certainly not the best of times for the people of Okpe Isoko in Isoko North local council of Delta State as they are currently counting their loses following a heavy rainstorm that wreaked havoc in the agrarian community.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] London -Britain's plan to leave the European Union will not affect its commitment to curb carbon emissions and combat climate change, a senior British government official said on Tuesday.

[New Times] Beginning June this year, economically disadvantaged women farmers will start benefitting from a new initiative, Gender Climate Change Agriculture Support Programme (GCCASP).

[Daily Maverick] If there was one person in the City of Cape Town's water response team who had the greatest sense of urgency, it was me.

[News24Wire] Heavy rainfall over the past month has brought much relief to most parts of the country as certain areas continue to battle severe drought.

[News24Wire] When 15-year-old Geraldine Marcus walked into the Lucky Star factory in the 1970s for her first day of work as a sardine packer in the cannery, she had no way of knowing that it would be where she would work for the next 37 years.

[Nation] Residents of seven villages in Marsabit have sent 43 representatives in search of food and non-food items in Moyale Town after floods washed away their property and impassable roads left them without any food supplies.

[Guardian] Enugu -Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has paid an on-the-spot assessment visit to scenes of the rainstorm that led to the destruction of about 100 homes, schools, a poultry farm and other public amenities at Agbogugu, Awgu Local Government Area of the state.

[New Era] Windhoek -Southern African countries with semi-arid climates will face increasingly complex water management challenges, as their regions become hotter and drier, and critical water supplies will come under greater pressure. Allowing local communities to partner in water management is key to governments meeting their service delivery obligations.

[Foroyaa] Members of the ECOWAS Parliament have converged in Banjul to find solutions that will address the effects of climate change in agriculture. The convergence which started on April 24th will continue to the 28th.

[News24Wire] Dam levels are "fast approaching" the 20% mark in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, Mayor Athol Trollip has confirmed.

[News24Wire] Five billion litres of life-saving water arrived in the Misverstand Dam on Wednesday, just as Saldanha Bay was about to run out of water.

[Nation] The stench from the pit is still strong, with bleached carcasses and bones bearing gruesome witness to the recent catastrophic drought. This is where the last of Mr Bulleh Abdullahi's once thriving herds were dumped.

[News24Wire] Overnight rain in parched Cape Town has resulted in flash flooding and the closure of some roads in the city.

[VOA] The much-feared "Day Zero", the day the drought-hit city of Cape Town was supposed to shut off the taps as the water supply ran out, has been quietly pushed from this month to sometime in 2019, with the promise of rainfall in coming months.

[Nation] Four people died yesterday following the heavy rains in the country.

[Nation] Nairobi residents will continue grappling with water rationing as mystery of lack of water at Ndakaini Dam despite heavy rains at the Aberdares deepens.

[Daily Trust] Debilitating climate change could make Nigeria's economic productivity to decrease by 11 percent in two years, two new reports have revealed.