Outside groups often offer their solutions for climate adaptation in Africa. But the best people to manage the climate crisis ...

Every rainy season for the past 12 years, floods have swept through 67-year-old Idris Egbunu's house in central Nigeria.

Africa's Sahara Desert may be considered a vast expanse of barren sand with limited vegetation, an extreme environment for ...

During colonialism and apartheid, Black South Africans were largely not supplied with clean, running water. New water laws must overturn this water inequality.

European colonialism, which methodically extracted wealth from Africa until the system’s collapse in the last century, has been replaced by climate colonialism that stifles the economic ...

A deadly heatwave in West Africa and the Sahel was "impossible" without human-induced climate change, scientists say. Temperatures soared above 48C in Mali last month with one hospital linking ...

I am also a philanthropist and entrepreneur—and I have seen firsthand that to effectively tackle climate change within the African context, from Egypt to Nigeria to South Africa, we must look to ...

It has wiped out 70 percent of the harvest in Zambia and 80 percent in Zimbabwe, WFP’s acting regional director for Southern Africa, Lola Castro, said. The lack of rain has also slashed ...

Natural weather systems, for example, can play a key role, as was the case with drought in southern Africa in early 2024. But climate change is shifting global rainfall patterns. While some of the ...

Similar “social acceptability” barriers will need to be overcome in South Africa, says Peter Johnston, a climate scientist who specializes in agricultural adaptation at the University of Cape ...

But across vast areas of Africa, climate change has thrown weather patterns into disarray and made flooding much more severe, especially this year. Devastating inundations are threatening the ...