In Kenya, as in most of Africa, landslides are the most dangerous natural disaster. Literature reviews show that not much study has been done on landslides in Kenya, even though they do a lot of damage. One of the key benefits of the Geographic Information System (GIS) is its ability to help understand and visualise…
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Aftermaths of a landslide in Muranga county after heavy rains. Nearly three years ago, on a rainy Thursday night at around midnight, 39-year-old Mary Wambui clung to her unborn baby. “The rain was too heavy! The lightning and thunderstorms were terrifying. My husband was not at home. I felt an unexplained fear for my sons,”…
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Ahead of the 27thUN climate summit (COP27), the youth and other groups have called on world leaders to urgently cut down their emissions to limit warming to 1.5°C to reduce the future impact of climate change on humans and ecological systems. Against the backdrop of the recent global disruption events such as the Russia/Ukraine-instigated energy…
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CHIKWAWA (Malawi) The raging floods induced by Tropical Storm Ana devastated Malawi’s Chikwawa District, located on the west bank of the Shire River {about 50 kilometers south of Blantyre} and ripped Lameck Paulo’s home. The 33-year-old father of three paused and shook his head while narrating the terrors of raging floods that fell on his Kanthema…
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Africa’s growth has been accelerating for the last twenty years. Before the Covid-19 outbreak, Africa was on track to more than triple its population this century. While this growth is excellent, it brings enormous air pollution challenges. Air pollution is one of the most significant environmental risks to health. The world health organization reckons that…
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By Nachilala Nkombo Nearly a quarter of Africa’s land is covered by forest. Zambia is fast losing its forest to deforestation. Sub-Saharan African countries consume fuelwood up to 200 percent times more than the trees’ annual growth rates. Hence, causing deforestation, lack of timber resources, and habitat loss for the species living in it. Many…
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By Anthony Langat, Mumias Kenya, In 2010, when Kemba Wangoli lost his father, a clerical officer at Mumias Sugar Company, taking care of his siblings fell to him. All Wangoli had to pay their school fees was his family’s land to cultivate sugarcane. It didn’t take long for him to realize that the sugarcane industry…
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Change of weather is not a new phenomenon. From the time in memorial, communities understood how the weather patterns changed. They observed behaviours in plants, insects, birds, people, the astronomic, and cultural beliefs that said it was time to plant. A birds chirping sound or a down dance warned farmers to till the land. They…
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