Tag Archives: Climate change

Blantyre, Zimbabwe | Xinhua | Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made an appeal to African leaders to promptly confront the string of climate change-related calamities that continue to afflict the region by, among other ways, embracing relocation strategy. The Zimbabwean leader, who was on a three-day state visit to Malawi, made …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) Uganda, an NGO operating in Uganda has urged the government of Uganda to design strategies that promote food security amongst communities while also ensuring that the environment is protected. This is in relation to the May 14 – …

Social discipline to stop practices that endanger the environment should replace era of inaction about climate change COMMENT | WALTER AKENA | When humans decide to wage war against nature, as we have always done by building on wetlands, cutting down trees, sand mining, and farming in marshlands, the outcome is …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandans have been advised to take collective responsibility for protecting the environment and not waiting for government intervention. Esther Anyakun the State Minister for Relief, Refugees, and Disaster Preparedness said that if the fight to protect the environment is taken seriously by everyone, the country …

Food rights activists insist there is more to food insecurity in the sub-region than climate change Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | High prices, conflicts, and weather shocks in certain areas will cause acute food insecurity in Uganda affecting 2.5 million people this year, according to the latest UN global report …

Abbott and CERI join forces in the hunt for the next global viral threats caused by climate change Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to the impacts of climate change. The rise in temperatures, changes in rainfall patterns, and extreme weather events …

UN moves to set-up Fund for poor and developing countries Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | The United Nations has established a transitional committee to begin work on operationalizing a new fund whose purpose is to respond to climate change-related losses and damage in poor and developing countries like Uganda. …

Foday David Kamara from Sierra Leone and Aziba Ekio from Nigeria have won The Young Climate Prize, an international award recognizing young sustainable climate designers under the age of 25. SPECIAL FEATURE | BIRD AENCY | Two young Africans have been selected as the global winners of the Young Climate …

COMMENT | PIUS WAMALA | Every 21st of March, Uganda joins the rest of the world to commemorate the International Day of Forests. Proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012, this day is meant to celebrate and create awareness about the importance of all types of trees and …

Blantyre, Malawi | Xinhua |  Tropical Cyclone Freddy has continued to cause devastation in the southern African region as the death toll from disasters such as flash floods and mudslides continues to rise. In Malawi, where the impact of the cyclone looks the most severe, the death toll has risen …