Climate change in Africa News

[Accra Times] Over 20,000 farmers to benefit from a $4million dollar World Bank Climate Finance programme following an agreement signed with Solidaridad.

[UN News] As nearly 40 per cent of land across the planet is degraded with more acres lost every second, governments, businesses and communities must galvanize action to reverse the damage and protect Earth, the UN chief said in a strong message for the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, marked annually on 17 June.

[UN News] Despite its huge potential, Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, continues to grapple with a host of challenges which are impacting people's lives and triggering conflict over key resources, a senior UN official in the country said on Friday.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis, June 14 -- Temperatures will rise on Saturday, June 15. Highs will be between 38 and 43 degrees, except in the extreme north-west and Cap Bon, as well as on the south-east coast, where they will be between 40 and 44 degrees, according to a monitoring bulletin published on Friday by the National Institute of Meteorology (INM) on the occasion of the Aid Al Adha.

[This Day] Ilorin -- The Kwara State Government has announced an ambitious statewide irrigation program aimed at combating climate change and boosting food production.

[Vanguard] Dr Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), says Africa loses between seven billion dollars and 15 billion dollars annually due to climate change.

[This Day] The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) yesterday lauded what it described as the renewed political commitment of President Bola Tinubu towards strengthening Nigeria's climate change, energy transition and green economy solutions.

[VOA] Harare, Zimbabwe -- The U.N. says an estimated 60 million people in southern Africa are food insecure due to the El Nino-induced drought -- and the problem is not only in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe, countries that have made international appeals for help.

[SAnews.gov.za] The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government is working towards a permanent solution for the people affected by the recent storms.

[VOA] Geneva -- The United Nations refugee agency says forced displacement around the globe surged to historic new heights last year, driven by conflict, persecution, human rights violations, climate crises and other disturbing events.

[New Dawn] Bong County -- Liberia's Environmental Protection Agency takes awareness campaign to Bong County, Central region.

[IPS] Bonn -- As the technical session of the global climate negotiations enters the final stretch in Bonn, Germany, climate activists from Africa have expressed fears that negotiators from the developed world are dragging their feet in a way to avoid paying their fair share to tackle the climate crisis.

[The Herald] Tatenda Mutasa -- Correspondent

[Ethiopian Herald] It is highly thought that not only must countries fight the causes of climate change but they should also adapt to the consequences that are often most dramatic for the people residing in developing countries like Africa and its subset Ethiopia, to be specific, indeed! Our time is highly compromised by climate change, which is one of the most captious continental and global challenges. With a best hope to face the bad effects of climate change on world security and to drive the world on a low-carbon

[Nile Post] Uganda is set to receive shs350 billion (USD 95 million) from Denmark for climate change, refugee programs and civic space support.

[New Times] Rwandan negotiators are in Bonn, Germany, as 196 countries meet to agree on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG), the new amount of funding which developed nations must mobilize every year starting in 2025 to support climate action in developing countries as floods, extreme rains, and brutal heat waves continue to ravage nations across the world.

[Leadership] Recently, the international community marked World Environment Day. The United Nations, at its Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972, set aside June 5 every year for raising awareness on environmental matters. The theme of this year's event, "Land Restoration, Desertification and Drought Resilience," demands that humanity confront this crisis head-on or risk permanent disfigurement of the only world it knows.

[SAnews.gov.za] The KwaZulu-Natal provincial government has appealed to the public to extend a helping hand to flood victims by donating essential items such as building materials, as restoration work is underway in the northern parts of eThekwini Metropolitan.

[SAnews.gov.za] The Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Thembi Nkadimeng, will visit KwaZulu-Natal today to assess the impact of the heavy storms that ravaged parts of the province, leaving behind a trail of destruction.

[UCT] Five global science and technology projects have been selected to join the Ocean Biogeochemistry Virtual Institute (OBVI) to address gaps in ocean data and modelling efforts by improving the breadth of research in the field and expanding capacity to understand ocean resources.