Climate change in Africa News

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- A fire outbreak near the Liberian Pavilion at the COP30 climate conference in Brazil caused a moment of alarm on Thursday as delegates were forced to evacuate part of the venue while emergency teams moved in to contain the blaze.

[UN News] With the clock ticking on climate negotiations in Belém, UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, speaking separately, delivered a united message: the world is watching, and compromise cannot wait.

[UN News] As climate talks in Belém enter their final stretch, negotiators are working on three fronts: technical details, ministerial consultations, and Presidency-led discussions. Behind the jargon and complex frameworks lie fundamental choices for more than 190 countries - choices that could shape how the Paris Agreement, signed in 2015, is turned into real-world action.

[IPS] Less than one percent of adaptation finance targets health, even as climate-sensitive diseases multiply. Africa alone will need roughly $300 billion annually by 2030 to build resilient systems and respond to climate-related loss and damage.

[GroundUp] They projected a series of illustrations, demanding urgent action on the global debt crisis and climate accountability

[Liberian Observer] At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, Liberia delivered a powerful national statement that resonated across Africa and the global African diaspora. Speaking at the High-Level Segment, Dr. Emmanuel K. Urey Yarkpawolo, Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia (EPA), championed a bold vision: African unity as the driving force for climate justice, and Liberia's leadership through concrete action.

[Liberian Investigator] BELÉM -- The Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia is urging stronger climate finance, cleaner mining technologies, and a just transition for workers and communities as part of the country's effort to overhaul its mining sector. The call was made Tuesday in a keynote address at the Liberian Pavilion at COP30 in Belém, Brazil--an appeal aimed at positioning mining as a driver of both economic growth and climate action.

[Liberian Investigator] Belém -- Liberia has issued a forceful appeal for Africans on the continent and across the diaspora to unite behind a common climate justice agenda, declaring that global climate negotiations must reflect the shared history, vulnerabilities, and aspirations of African-descended people everywhere.

[allAfrica] Africa contributes less than 4 percent of global emissions, yet the continent faces pressure to decarbonise for a greener economy. But this decarbonisation must follow development, which remains Africa's primary imperative.

[Nyasa Times] Just after sunrise, long before offices open or policy meetings begin, you will find young Africans already at work in the fields, markets, and improvised tech hubs that power our food systems. Different countries, different landscapes, but the same pulse: young people taking on the reigns to engineer the change they want to see.

[Nyasa Times] On a road in Kenya's Makueni County, a woman loads sacks of pigeon pea onto a motorbike. Her landscape is rehabilitated, soils restored, seeds climate-resilient, markets ready, and a weather alert on her phone shows when it will rain. Each element exists because financing, science, extension servicesand markets worked together. It shows what COP30 can deliver if finance, infrastructure, inputsand knowledge reach smallholders simultaneously.

[Daily News] Dar es Salaam -- TANZANIA is among the countries expected to benefit from up to 20 million US dollars for implementing projects aimed at addressing the impacts of climate change through the Loss and Damage Fund.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry, Dr. Deborah Barasa, used her national statement at the United Nations Climate Change 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) High-Level Segment to issue one of the strongest appeals yet for credible climate finance and concrete global action.

[New Times] The first week of COP30 talks in Belém, Brazil, has been marked by intense debate over adaptation finance and the Loss and Damage Fund, as negotiators push for stronger support for countries hardest hit by climate change.

[IPS] The idea of land abundance is a colonial fiction that refuses to die. Our research shows that Africa's lands are already intensively used and deeply valued by millions of rural people. Professor Ruth Hall, Director-PLAAS at the University of the Western Cape.

[New Era] Recent promising rain showers across various parts of the country have ignited hope among farmers in the Omaheke region, who many have now turned their attention and efforts to gardening as they strive to preserve food security.

[Premium Times] Speaking at the Nigerian Pavilion during COP30 in Belém, Brazil, Governor Radda delivered a compelling address themed "Imperative for International Collaborations and Supports Towards Climate Actions at Subnational Level: The Katsina State Pathway."

[Vanguard] Residents and other relevant stakeholders in Zamfara State have been sensitised on fire safety measures ahead of the winter season.

[Ghanaian Times] The Jospong Group of Companies (JGC) and the United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to bridge the gap between climate ambition and tangible action in Africa.

[Liberian Investigator] President Joseph Nyuma Boakai on Tuesday inaugurated the 22nd Annual General Meeting of the African Road Maintenance Funds Association (ARMFA), emphasizing the importance of stronger collaboration, smarter investments, and bolder leadership to modernize Africa's road infrastructure.