Climate change in Africa News

[Daily Maverick] Much of South Africa has been battered by relentless rainfall and flooding since the start of the year.

[New Republic] Beneficiaries of the Community Based Forest Management Project (CBFM) supported by UNDP with funding from Sweden in Kailahunand Lukasu in Lofa County, have expressed that the project has greatly impacted their communities, and are calling for replication in other areas.

[COSATU] The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) welcomes President Cyril Ramaphosa's promulgation into law the badly needed Climate Change Act.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD) has cautioned Kenyans to remain alert for potentially heavy downpours and take necessary precautions as the March-April-May (MAM) Long Rains season sets in.

[Radio Dalsan] The Somalia Drought Risk Reduction Conference officially commenced today, with Commissioner Mohamuud Moallim leading the opening ceremony.

[The Conversation Africa] Underground seed banks in South Africa that date back over 130 years have been found to contain fynbos seeds that are alive. These seed banks are natural storage areas in the soil where certain plants preserve their seeds.

[Daily Trust] Bold climate plans can drive Nigeria's economic take-off, improving living standards, and delivering massive benefits for people, businesses, and the economy.

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[Leadership] Climate change is the long-term shift in temperatures and weather patterns. These shifts can be natural due to changes in the sun's activity or significant volcanic eruptions (United Nations).

[The Conversation Africa] Thrips are tiny insects - their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they cause to crops is anything but small. A 2021 research paper found that in Indonesia "the damage to red chilli plants caused by thrips infestation ranges now from 20% to 80%". In India, various thrips infestations in the late 2010s and early 2020s "damaged 40%-85% of chilli pepper crops in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana".

[Ghanaian Times] The Government's Anti-Flood Task Force on Wednesday took an aerial tour of Accra to ascertain the resilience of the capital to floods ahead of the rainy season.

[Ghanaian Times] About 2.6million people are projected to migrate down south from northern Ghana by 2050 if the current temperature trends continue, researchers have warned.

[Nyasa Times] Cyclone Jude, though no longer a direct threat to Malawi's weather, has left devastation in its wake, displacing 3,029 people and affecting 11,370 individuals.

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[World Bank] STORY HIGHLIGHTS

[OCHA] Three days before Tropical Cyclone Jude made landfall in northern Mozambique, the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) allocated US$6 million to help hundreds of thousands of people ahead of the storm.

[MSF] Somalia is facing a dire malnutrition crisis that has been worsened by prolonged droughts, ongoing conflict, economic instability, and a fragile healthcare system. The Baidoa and Mudug regions, where Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) works, are examples of the crisis unfolding across the country, with thousands of children at immediate risk of severe malnutrition and its life-threatening consequences.

[VOA] Blantyre, Malawi -- Tropical Cyclone Jude slammed into parts of southern Africa this week, causing no deaths but leaving widespread damage, especially in Malawi and Mozambique.

[Liberian Observer] CYCLES-LIBERIA, one of Liberia's leading advocacy grassroots environmental organizations, has stressed the importance of taking concrete actions against the negative impact of climate change on smallholder farmers in rural communities to help mitigate the current challenges.

[SAnews.gov.za] An orange level 6 weather warning has been issued for parts of KwaZulu-Natal over the next two days due to ongoing disruptive rains in the area.