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[This Day] Leadway Assurance is partnering with Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), the National Agricultural Development Fund (NADF), and Verdure Climate, to lead a national dialogue on identifying challenges and proffering actionable solutions on agricultural and climate risks in Nigeria.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- In response to Kenya's escalating humanitarian crisis, the European Union (EU) has pledged €250,000 in emergency aid to assist communities affected by prolonged drought, severe flooding, and fast-spreading disease outbreaks.

[Shabelle] Mogadishu -- Somalia's Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre on Tuesday received International Rescue Committee (IRC) President and CEO David Miliband in Mogadishu during a high-level visit focused on the country's worsening humanitarian crisis.

[This Day] The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) has raised the alarm on the rate of global warming, saying it is likely to be higher than Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates, given that the earth is heating up faster than previously predicted.

[WHO-AFRO] Gaborone, Botswana -- Eight Southern African countries - Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe are joining forces to Prevent, detect and respond to disease outbreaks before they spread to communities.

[Shabelle] Mogadishu, Somalia -- Somalia's National Disaster Management Authority (SoDMA) has received a $1 million donation from the Government of the People's Republic of China to bolster emergency drought relief efforts across the country, officials said on Monday.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Seventh Session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) opened on Monday in Nairobi, bringing together environment ministers, intergovernmental organizations, civil society, youth delegates, and private sector representatives from around the world to advance solutions for a resilient planet through multilateralism.

[UN News] The UN and partners are seeking $23 billion to provide lifesaving support next year to 87 million people worldwide affected by war, climate disasters, earthquakes, epidemics and crop failures.

[RFI] At dawn in the town of Mai Mahiu, Kenya, all is quiet. No goat bells ring, no voices call across farm fields, there is no rustle of maize leaves in the morning wind. Instead, the air smells of churned mud and uprooted vegetation, a reminder of the April 2024 floods that tore through this valley.

[RFI] Congolese artist Sammy Baloji's first documentary The Tree of Authenticity fuses images and sounds, and features a talking tree as its narrator, to highlight the connection between Democratic Republic of Congo's colonial past and the present-day climate crisis. RFI asked the artist what inspired him to branch out into this new medium.

[New Times] The government is set to pilot a project to quantify climate-related health impacts by integrating climate and health data into early warning systems, officials have announced.

[The Conversation Africa] South Africa opened its G20 presidency with an ambitious message for a world divided by conflict and economic strain: solidarity, equality and sustainability. The Johannesburg G20 leaders' summit tried to mend deep geopolitical rifts. Even those who chose to boycott the summit remained included - with their chairs left symbolically empty.

[Daily News] Lilongwe -- TANZANIA, through the Tanzania Forest Service (TFS), has joined other African countries in an international workshop that discussed new methods for measuring and monitoring the amount of carbon sequestered by trees growing outside forests, known as Trees Outside Forests (TOF).

[Daily News] Dodoma -- TANZANIA is committed to ensuring its participation in carbon trading markets delivers tangible, measurable, and transparent results, aligned with the country's goals outlined in its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to combating climate change.

[The Conversation Africa] The G20 group of the world's 20 most powerful economies and the African and European Unions has a group dedicated to women empowerment - the Women 20 (W20). Set up in 2015 to promote gender equality and women's economic empowerment, it's one of 13 official engagement groups in the "Sherpa track" of the G20. It advises governments on how they can promote women's economic empowerment and gender equality. Narnia Bohler-Muller, a legal specialist and gender equality researcher, was the head of South Africa's

[Daily Maverick] As thunderstorms rage across South Africa, December promises extreme weather -- hail, floods and relentless rain.

[Democracy Works] The G20 moment presents a critical opportunity for African political leadership to shape global governance in ways that reflect its priorities around climate justice, equitable development, and inclusive democracy. South Africa's G20 presidency and the permanent membership of the African Union to the group, presents tangible domestic, regional and international opportunities for youth leadership in the climate and energy democracy space. For these opportunities to be seized meaningfully, political

[The Conversation Africa] Africa's drylands are often imagined as vast, empty spaces. Romantic wilderness on the one hand. Zones of hunger, conflict and poverty on the other. Media stories tend to emphasise crises and scarcity, portraying these regions as peripheral and fragile.

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- The government of Ethiopia remains fully committed to accelerating economic reforms while embedding climate sustainability, State Minister of Planning and Development, Bereket Fisehatsion said.