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El Niño: Horn of Africa and Great Lakes brace for a season of extreme rain
Forecasters warn of a 90 percent chance of heavier than normal rains across the Horn of Africa and the Great…
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São Tomé and Príncipe joins the UNESCO World Heritage List with its roças, a memory of forced labour
UNESCO has inscribed six colonial plantations in São Tomé and Príncipe, the country's first World Heritage listing. The roças recall a cocoa economy built on forced…
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Zimbabwe: with its sewage plants collapsing, Parliament calls for a state of emergency
Harare draws its drinking water from a lake that takes in 80 megalitres of raw sewage every day. Zimbabwe's MPs…
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Somalia: pirates kill five crew members of the Honour 25 tanker before its rescue
Five sailors were killed before rescuers reached them: the Honour 25 hijacking marks a deadly turn for Somali piracy, which…
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Kilimanjaro fire: Lemosho and Londorosi climbing routes closed
Africa's highest peak is burning again, only weeks after a blaze turned 1,800 hectares of vegetation to ash. This time,…
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Climate: Africa wants adaptation money to finally reach the fields
Climate money exists, but it often gets lost along the way. In New York and in Kigali, Africa is looking…
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Nouakchott underwater: heavy rains paralyse the Mauritanian capital
Roads turned into ponds, taxis off the streets and residents forced to wade for kilometres: since 24 September, heavy rains…
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Bassirou Diomaye Faye Honoured in Abidjan for His Water Policy
Water has earned Senegal's head of state another accolade. Bassirou Diomaye Faye was awarded the Special Trophy of the West…
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Magadi: Kenya wants to turn the page on Tata Chemicals, but the exit looks complicated
Kenya wants to end Tata Chemicals' hold on Lake Magadi and split the concession among up to ten companies. The…
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Up to 100 mm of rain in 48 hours: Dakar on red alert until Friday
Dakar is bracing for a downpour. ANACIM has placed the capital and fifteen departments on red alert, with up to…
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DRC: Bukavu grapples with fires that won’t stop
A fire meant to be contained to one home turned into Bukavu's deadliest tragedy in years when panicked schoolchildren, fleeing…
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Tunisia: New Wave of Storms Soaks 16 Governorates and Cuts Roads
Three waves of storms in under two weeks have hit Tunisia, with 62 mm of rain recorded in Sfax, roads…
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Nigeria: Illegal Mining Crackdown Turns Into a Prison Tragedy
They were rounded up for mining gold without a permit. By the next morning, 37 of them were dead. As…
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Africa on the Front Line of a Climate It Did Not Create
The math is stark: a continent responsible for barely a sliver of the world's carbon emissions is absorbing some of…
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Ozone and Climate: Why Africa Has a Decisive Role to Play in the Battle for Sustainable Cooling
September 16 marks the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, a commemoration that carries particular weight this…
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Djibouti and El Niño, a small nation at the heart of a double climate and humanitarian emergency
A quarter of Djibouti's population is now food insecure, and the number keeps climbing. Sitting at the crossroads of Ethiopian…
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Senegal and Gambia rivers: water levels recede, running well below 2025
A quieter rainy season is showing up in the numbers: Senegal's key river stations are running well below 2025 levels,…
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Paris Space Summit: Africa pushes for space sovereignty in service of the climate
As global powers jockey for influence at the Grand Palais, African nations are making their own case: space technology should…
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Mozambique Braces for an El Niño Episode of Unprecedented Intensity
A record-strength El Niño event, confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization as one of the most intense since 1950, is…
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Zimbabwe, Drowning and Parched: The Climate’s Double Blow
Zimbabwe is living through one of its most punishing climate seasons in recent memory. Since October 2025, torrential rains and…
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Nigeria Underwater: A Rainy Season Under Pressure in 2026
Every year, between April and October, Nigeria holds its breath. Africa's most populous country is once again going through a…
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Algeria wildfires: Tebboune vows firmness and full compensation for victims
Meeting on Sunday, August 30th with senior civilian and military officials as well as the Minister of Justice, the head…
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Nepal and Tibet: Flood death toll climbs to 750, more than 3,000 still unaccounted for
A week after a torrent of mud, ice and debris comparable to a tsunami tore through the Trishuli river valley,…
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Horn of Africa: The Dramatic Return of Somali Piracy in 2026
The root causes of the phenomenon, meanwhile, never truly went away. The persistent weakness of the Somali central state, chronic…
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Nigeria: heavy rains trigger urban flooding in Abuja
Nigeria's federal capital has experienced another episode of urban flooding. Heavy rains fell on several districts of Abuja, triggering flash…
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Algeria: At Least 12 Dead as Wildfires Sweep Through the Northeast
At least twelve people died on Wednesday, August 26, as a series of wildfires tore through several provinces in northern…
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DRC: When the Forest Disappears, the Ground Gives Way Beneath the Living
The Democratic Republic of Congo is facing one of the world's starkest examples of deforestation's human cost. In the densely…
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The Niger River is choking on its capital’s waste
In Niamey, the river that gave the country its name changes color with the seasons, and not for the better.…
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Cameroon-CAR Border: At Least 107 Dead in Collapse of Artisanal Gold Mine
According to the mayor of Garoua-Boulai, Amadou Abdon, 107 bodies had already been pulled from the rubble by Tuesday night,…
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Twenty Years After the Probo Koala Toxic Waste Disaster, Ivory Coast’s Victims Are Still Waiting for Justice
Twenty years on, the Probo Koala affair stands as one of the starkest symbols of the impunity multinational companies can…