According to Kenya’s President William Ruto, “Africa must step forward as the cornerstone around which effective climate ...

Analysis - Drought disasters in southern Africa are mainly attributed to a lack of preparedness, inadequate response and mitigation and poor risk reduction measures. With little to no preparation ...

Africa is heating up at a faster rate than the rest of the planet and enduring more severe climate and weather disasters such as droughts, a joint U.N.-African Union report said on Monday, warning ...

Severe storms and natural events are increasing in South Africa, and homeowners are warned to maintain their insurance and ...

Total losses from natural disasters amounted to $40b. Over a third of the world’s natural disaster losses in the first half of 2024 came from Asia Pacific (APAC) and Africa, causing $40b in ...

Africa, a continent of 1.5 billion people, has the world’s least developed weather and climate observation network with fewer stations operating to global basic standards than Germany, according ...

Africa is particularly vulnerable to suffering natural disasters, such as floods, severe storms and droughts. These are not only crippling economies and people's livelihoods but also costing lives ...

South Africa classified floods and storms that hit three coastal provinces in September and October as national disasters, allowing the government to free up funds to assist with reconstruction.

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa was under a declared state of national disaster on Thursday as the death toll from floods caused ...

Within Africa, there's a debate about whether the 1969 Organisation for the African Unity (OAU) Refugee Convention originally included people displaced by natural disasters in its definition of ...

So, when we look at latter-day South Africa, what we see are current and approaching disasters. Load-shedding is a disaster. Failing public transport is a disaster. Political infighting is a disaster.

In Africa, trauma from climate disasters lingers. Until now, little attention has been paid to the psychological impact caused by the brutality of extreme weather events. By Laurence Caramel ...