Climate Changes News- Africa

Lariya Abdulkareem's family used to make a living farming beans and sorghum at a village in Nigeria's northwest Katsina state....

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will give Kenya $255 million (Ksh 30.28b) in emergency assistance funding to help...

The Government has developed a law to tame encroachment on riparian land and wetlands in the country. The legislation, which...

Twenty million people are at risk of starvation this year as delayed rains worsen an already brutal drought in Kenya,...

Victims of South Africa's deadliest storm on record scrambled to get help on Thursday as the death toll from floods...

In her 40 years living by the water's edge, Amissa Irakoze never much feared Lake Tanganyika. Floods were frequent, even...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday met with devastated families in Durban, after record rains sparked floods and mudslides...

Devastating floods left 253 dead in the South African city of Durban, the provincial health chief said Wednesday, after hillsides...

The death toll from floods and mudslides after rainstorms struck the South African port city of Durban and surrounding areas...

At least five people have been killed in floods and mudslides across the South African port city of Durban following...

A string of deadly storms pummeled Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique with more intense rainfall because of climate change, new research...

Along a riverbank scarred by logging, Joseph Mwandenge Mangi points out a solitary mangrove tree, a species once abundant in...

Under the blazing sun, Salado Adan Mohamed puts the finishing touches to her makeshift shelter, cobbled together from branches and...

The number of major wildfires worldwide will rise sharply in coming decades due to global warming, and governments are ill-prepared...

The United States and Egypt on Monday launched a working group to prepare for the COP27 climate summit this year,...

Dabaso Galgalo is now used to the smell and grisly spectacle of rotting flesh festering in the scorching heat as Kenya...

For teenage climate campaigner Rahmina Paulette, the journey to becoming an environmental activist began with a cancelled boat ride.  The...

Orders on Thursday to evacuate Goma, a city lying in the shadow of DR Congo's Mount Nyiragongo volcano, have shed...

Invasive species introduced by human activity are costing African agriculture some $3.66 trillion every year -- around 1.5 times the...

Climate change is set to devastate Kenya's tea production as the world's largest exporter faces rising temperatures, erratic rainfall and...