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Pastoralist communities in the Horn of Africa are some of the hardest hit by the drought. They rely on livestock for income and food, and the lack of water only increases their existing vulnerability

An unwanted guest: El Niño and Africa in 2016

23 December 2015
El Niño is the largely unwanted Christmas gift – a warming of the tropical Pacific causing drought and floods that will peak at the end of this month, but will impact weather systems around the globe into 2016. This year’s...

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    ICRC distributes maize to farmers in Zimbabwe's Fuchira region affected by drought

    Southern Africa's food crisis

    4 December 2015
    Close to 29 million people in southern Africa are already facing food shortages as a result of this season’s poor harvest, but worse could be...

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    Air pollution causes over 3,000 deaths in Kabul, health officials say

    Killing us softly

    27 March 2015
    A recent public outcry in China, sparked by a damning documentary about air pollution, was based on well-founded fear: Of the 100 million people who...

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    Moorosi Nchejana is one of 40 farmers in the village of Mabalane in Lesotho’s Mohale’s Hoek district who participated in a pilot programme by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization to strengthen farmers’ capacity to adapt to climate change (J

    Boosting Africa’s food production

    15 September 2014
    Smallholder farmers, who hold over 80 percent of all farms in sub-Saharan Africa, are struggling to adapt to rapidly rising temperature and erratic rains, according...

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    Tsetse fly

    Tsetse fly science could save lives

    28 May 2014
    Scientists have welcomed the development of genome sequence data on the tsetse fly, the vector responsible for the transmission of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), commonly...

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    Termites inside of a mound

    Climate change, science and tradition

    23 May 2014
    In the latest of several partnerships between tradition and modern science aimed at improving resilience to climate change, pastoralists and meteorologists in Tanzania are working...

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    Remittance rip-offs

    22 April 2014
    All over the world migrant workers are sending money home to their families. The money pays hospital bills and school fees, buys land, builds houses...
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