BLANTYRE, Malawi:On the night of March 13, 2023, when Cyclone Freddy hit Malawi, Celina Nyozani, a mother of eight, escaped the floods with the assistance of Lapken Thole, who had found a way to protect his family from the torrential downpours. Nyozani told Africa Climate News that by the third day, she had become too…
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Margarida Tivane, one of the flood victims living in the Chihaquelane resettlement area. Tivane walks about 6 km to fetch water from the river as there are no water sources nearby: photo by Charles Mangriwo. CHOKWE (Mozambique)Twenty-two years on, scars of Mozambique’s worst floods still haunt Gilda Muhate, a 60-year-old widow living with her five…
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Intense floods, cyclones, and drought, have devastated many sub-Saharan African countries, this year. As temperature rise, so does the losses in livelihoods and damages to key infrastructure hampering development and country planning. In Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia, rains have failed consecutively. By March 2022, more than 13 million people were severely food insecure. Tropical storms…
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Dr. Julitta Onabanjo, is the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Regional Director for East and Southern Africa CABO DELGADO, Mozambique: As governments and communities rallied together to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, other humanitarian crises caused by conflict and natural disasters continued unabated. A situation faced by Mozambique. A nation still wrestling with two…
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