Tag Archives: Climate change

  As UNGA gets underway in New York, Africa pushes for climate finance to meet SDG targets as homegrown fixes begin to blunt the fallout from rising heat and failed rains.   SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD | African climate projects are restoring worn-out farmland, bringing back coastal mangrove forests and …

  NUWAKOT, Nepal | Xinhua | For Santosh Thapa, his family was lucky when a devastating mudslide hit Devighat in Nuwakot in central Nepal; all his relatives managed to escape the disaster, leaving their belongings behind as mud gushed down. It was a narrow escape, Thapa said. Although he was …

    East Africa’s shrinking mountain glaciers on three peaks in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania will soon be no more. The 2025 State of the Climate in Africa report (page 13) estimates that the ice areas on Mt Kenya, the continent’s second-highest peak, have shrunk 96% in the past 115 years. The …

  The continent receives less than one percent of global clean air investment, a gap experts say must be urgently addressed   NEWS ANALYSIS | RONALD MUSOKE | Africa has no shortage of evidence that polluted air is harming people’s health, slowing economic growth and placing an increasing burden on cities …

  The cattle in Karamoja have survived generations of drought and hardship. The question now is whether they can survive a changing climate   NEWS ANALYSIS | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Before sunrise, Christine Jemkeia walks towards the Akura Oyan Dam in eastern Uganda’s Amudat District, following a routine that has …

  Humanitarian History Is Being Rewritten—Will We Stay True to Our Core Values?   COMMENT | MATHIAS RUKUBA |  The humanitarian sector stands at one of the most defining moments in its history. Around the world, conflicts are becoming more complex, climate-related disasters are growing more frequent, displacement has reached …

  COMMENT | JEREMIAH NYAGAH | Before a child can learn, dream, play or thrive, there is something far more basic they need: water. Not tomorrow. Not when funding becomes available. Not when another development plan is approved. Today. Yet for millions of children across Africa, access to safe water, sanitation …

     COMMENT | WALTER AKENA | While growing up in the village, our grandmother always warned us never to sit at the doorway whenever it rained. According to her, sitting at the doorway while it rained was known to bring misfortune, including developing painful boils on the buttocks, commonly …

  COMMENT | JEREMIAH NYAGAH |  As Uganda marks World Environment Day 2026 under the theme: “Climate Action Begins with You: Act Now”the conversation will likely focus on carbon emissions, global targets and international commitments. But in Uganda’s refugee-hosting districts, climate change is experienced in far more immediate ways. It …

  New digital tools are revealing the hidden patterns of lakes, rivers and dams, offering Africa a clearer path to water security   NEWS ANALYSIS | RONALD MUSOKE | On the shores of Lake Sulunga in central Tanzania, researcher Nancy Wayua is tracing three decades of change in a water body …