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[The Conversation Africa] Malawi is heading towards a severe food crisis later this year. Drought brought on by the El Niño weather pattern has affected the harvest of maize, the staple food grown by nine out of 10 farming households in the country.

[Government of Mauritius] A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), aiming to promote collaborative research on issues pertaining to climate change in respect of the land and transport sector, was signed, yesterday, between the Ministry of Land Transport and Light Rail and the Université des Mascareignes (UDM), at the United Docks Business Park in Port Louis.

[savethechildren_uk] Nairobi -- The torrential rains, which come after years of drought and have been attributed to both human-induced climate change and the tail end of the naturally occurring El Niño weather pattern [3], have displaced over 420,000 people with at least 330 killed due to unusually heavy flooding in all three countries.

[The Rockefeller Foundation] Recent floods in Kenya have made headlines all over the world. Across the country and around the region, these floods have claimed over 200 lives, displaced 150,000 people, and turned classrooms into emergency shelters. They offer a stark reminder of the profound impact climate change is already having across Africa.

[The Herald] The Government is committed to building a resilient and sustainable Zimbabwe that thrives amidst the complexities of climate change.

[UN News] The small island developing State of Cabo Verde is fighting back against climate change with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

[Nyasa Times] Controller of Agricultural and Extension services in the Ministry of agriculture Dr Alfred Mwenefumbo on Tuesday urged farmers in the country to plant draught resistance varieties as one way of ensuring Malawi's attainment of food security.

[World Bank] Washington -- The World Bank Board today approved a $74 million International Development Association (IDA) grant to enhance climate-resilient transport connectivity and agricultural market access in Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone Connectivity and Agricultural Market Infrastructure Project (CAMIP) will support all-season connectivity and access to jobs, markets, and services, particularly in rural areas where the lack of infrastructure has been a major barrier to economic development.

[UN News] Climate action taken so far to help fund efforts in cash-strapped small island developing States (SIDS) "does not measure up to what has been said" in the wake of COP28 in Dubai last year.

[IPS] WASHINGTON DC -- Last week, the World Bank Group released a new report that highlights the urgent need to drastically reduce GHG emissions to address the climate crisis and calls on countries to act. However, while the World Bank's acknowledgment of the damaging climate impacts of industrial agriculture is a crucial step forward, it's simply not enough.

[The Conversation Africa] A severe storm hit South Africa's Western Cape province between 6 and 9 April 2024, with extreme winds gusting at up to 135km/h. The storm left a trail of destruction across Cape Town and surrounding areas - at least 1,500 people were left homeless after the high winds fanned fires through their communities, burning homes to the ground.

[WHO] Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) approved the General Programme of Work 2025-2028, which includes responding to the escalating threat to health posed by climate change as one of its six strategic objectives. These objectives reflect major areas of focus for this four-year period.

[Norwegian Refugee Council] The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), supported by Germany's KfW Development Bank, has completed a number of activities addressing immediate needs in the eastern Libyan city of Derna following a deadly storm late last year.

[The Conversation Africa] The Rufiji River, which drains into Tanzania's south-east coast, experienced a major wave of flooding in April 2024. The flooding caused tragic loss of life and affected at least 88,000 individuals. More than 28,000 hectares of crops were damaged.

[Nyasa Times] The United States government stands steadfast in solidarity with Malawians who were affected by the El Niño-induced drought across the country -- thus, through USAID, it has injected US$7 million (MK12 billion) as additional humanitarian assistance towards the mitigation of the disaster.

[Malaria Consortium] Climate change and antimicrobial resistance will be prominent issues at the seventy-seventh World Health Assembly, taking place from 27 May to 1 June in Geneva.

[Daily Trust] In recent years, Nigeria has experienced increasingly severe heatwaves, a phenomenon largely attributed to climate change. These heatwaves have significant implications for the country's environment, economy and public health, necessitating urgent and comprehensive responses.

[IPS] In this explainer, IPS takes a look at carbon emissions trading, which allows an entity, unable to reduce carbon emissions to the required limits, to pay someone who is not only successfully limiting their own carbon emissions but has also gone a step further to remove additional carbon from the atmosphere.

[New Times] Rwanda has expressed solidarity with Zimbabwe as the southern African country grapples with a devastating El Nino induced drought which resulted in an estimated six million of its population becoming food insecure during the 2024-2025 season.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican NGO, the Education for All Movement, has pointed to natural disasters, teacher shortages and the late distribution of primary school textbooks as the main factors that have been jeopardizing fulfillment of the goals established in the National Education System.