As climate change intensifies, it is imperative for policymakers to address the escalating loss and damage it inflicts on vulnerable communities in developing countries. In India's Maharashtra state, these impacts are forcing rural families into life-altering decisions and migrations to work in sugarcane fields, where exploitative practices by contractors, including …
Residents offload relief food after it was delivered to Lamuria in Nyeri County. Residents urged the Government to buy some of their livestock to ensure that the animals do not die of starvation. [Photo: Kibata Kihu/Standard] The Government has approved Sh7.4 billion to be spent on the second phase of …
The number of Kenyans facing starvation has risen from 2.7 million to three million. Agriculture PS Richard Lesiyampe yesterday said the government has done its best, but Sh11 billion is still needed to fight the ravaging drought up to July. "We have approved Sh7.4 billion to be used in the …
Cape Town – The City of Cape Town is set to release the identities of all customers found guilty of contravention of Level 3B water restrictions on Monday. This after the City said water consumption needed to decrease by more than 100 million litres per day, from a current 825 …
In Somalia, the farm animals are dying. The water holes have dried up. The crops have failed. With no food, water or money, people are trudging off their land, taking the long, dry walk to the nearest town to look for help. A two-year drought — the worst since the …
Thirteen counties hit by the ravaging drought are in the alarm phase, with Baringo being the most recent, the Kenya Red Cross Society has said. RCS secretary general Abbas Gullet on Friday said Baringo moved from the alert phase to the alarm phase after more than 7,000 animals became emaciated. …
If you thought the current drought ravaging many parts of the country was bad enough, then brace yourself for an invasion of the armyworm. Experts have warned that an invasion of the maize destroying armyworm in Southern Africa could spread towards East Africa in the next few months. This comes …
MADIBENG - Some North West residents are blaming their water woes on a lack of political will by the Madibeng Municipality in Brits. Residents of Mmakau have been without clean, running water for several months. They claim their suffering has become big business for service providers. Community leaders say they've …
Families in several Rift Valley counties are now eating wild fruits and tree barks to survive. In West Pokot, locals are boiling leaves of trees which they use as vegetables even as the county records increased cases of malnutrition. Ompolion Chief Joseph Korkimul said livestock are also surviving on wild …
Farmers in Uganda have called on the government to put in place measures to help them manage the impending food shortage. Severe drought that has led to major crop failures, lack of pasture and receding water levels in lakes and rivers has been reported in several parts of East Africa …
The ongoing drought in Kenya rightly qualifies to be termed a national disaster, an environmentalist has said. Speaking to Africa Science News in Busia county, the Kenya Forest Services coordinator James Were said, the drought has so far led to death of livestock, humanity and has hugely disrupted lifestyle and …
Pretoria – About R2.5 billion was made available to farmers last year as the country experienced a severe drought, says President Jacob Zuma. Delivering the State of the Nation Address, President Zuma said on Thursday the funds were made available for the provision of livestock feed, water infrastructure, drilling, equipping …
Severe drought in Kenya is likely to lead to increased human-wildlife conflict, the country’s wildlife conservationists warned on Wednesday. International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) East Africa Regional Director James Isiche told Xinhua in Nairobi that lack of water and pasture will force wildlife to move out of protected areas …
Maputo — The World Food Program (WFP) plans to assist 700,000 people via its food aid programs in central and southern Mozambique, the agency announced Tuesday in Maputo. The assistance is part of the response to the weak agricultural performance negatively influenced by droughts that has hit the country in …
Due to stricter water restriction measures in Cape Town, the operating times of public swimming pools have been changed "for the remainder of the summer season", the City of Cape Town said on Wednesday. With the exception of Sea Point, the Mnandi Resort pool, and four other indoor facilities in …
At least 20 million people are facing starvation with 11.2 million in dire need of food in the Horn of Africa due to drought. There were two consecutive poor rain seasons in 2016. On Tuesday, Mahboub Maalim, the executive secretary of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, said that the drought …
Yier Bokoch, 28, crawls out of his tiny hut in Nan'golei village in the border trading centre of Illeret but he is too weak to stand up. His young wife Krowl and neighbours try to lift him up but he only takes three steps before he collapses on the ground …
At the same time that King Mswati III told his subjects that Swaziland had been saved from the drought because people believed in God, the World Food Program reported 250,000 Swazi people would need assistance with food until at least March 2017. In a sermon, delivered on 28 January 2017, …
A borehole dug by herders in a desperate attempt to survive Kenya's last severe drought has been transformed into a lifeline for thousands of children and animals as a new drought hits, thanks to the addition of solar pumping and water storage. The well has become an oasis in the …
Nairobi — The number of people in need of relief assistance has risen from 1.3 million in August 2016 to 2.7 million following below average performance of the 2016 short rains. Many of those affected are the most vulnerable including the elderly, the sick, mothers and children under the age …
The national government has launched the programme to purchase emaciated livestock from farmers in parts of Baringo County. Speaking in Kabarnet Town on Monday, Water Principal Secretary Fred Segor said the initiative targets to purchase about 100,000 animals from areas worst hit by drought especially in Tiaty and Baringo North …
