Serious flooding imminent in Zambezi Valley
By Sarah | February 2, 2011
Mozambique News Agency (AIM), 1 February 2011, Maputo
Serious flooding in the Zambezi valley in central Mozambique now looks inevitable following the decision taken on Tuesday to increase the discharges from the Cahora Bassa dam to 6,400 cubic metres per second. Read the rest of this entry »
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South Africa flood death toll rises as government declares 33 disaster zones
By Mark | January 25, 2011
Warnings of humanitarian crises after flooding claims more than 100 lives and threatens rest of southern Africa
David Smith, The Guardian, 24th January, 2011
Flooding in South Africa has killed more than 100 people, forced at least 8,400 from their homes and prompted the government to declare 33 disaster areas. Read the rest of this entry »
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Southern Africa: Heavy rain puts relief agencies on alert
By Mark | January 24, 2011
IRIN, 21 January 2011
Heavy rains and localized flooding across southern Africa from Angola to Madagascar are raising fears that the devastating floods of 2000 will be repeated. Then, thousands of people were plucked from rooftops by helicopter, several hundred died, and Mozambique’s agricultural production was severely impacted. Read the rest of this entry »
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President Zuma’s speech on agriculture and food security at the Africa EU Summit.
By Mark | November 29, 2010
Address by the President of the Republic of South Africa, His Excellency, President Jacob Zuma, on Sub-Theme 3: Millennium Development Goals on Agriculture and Food Security, at the 3rd Africa-European Union Summit.
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South Africa unveils plans for ‘world’s biggest’ solar power plant
By admin | October 26, 2010
Giant mirrors and solar panels in Northern Cape would reduce carbon emissions and generate one-tenth of the country’s energy needs. Read the rest of this entry »
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Mozambique’s riots: The true face of global warming
By Info | September 7, 2010
Raj Patel, Mail and Guardian online, 5 September 2010
It has been a summer of record temperatures — Japan had its hottest summer on record, as did South Florida and New York. Meanwhile, Pakistan and Niger are flooded and the eastern US is mopping up after hurricane Earl. None of these individual events can definitively be attributed to global warming. But to see how climate change will play out in the 21st century, you needn’t look to Britain’s Met Office. Look, instead, to the deaths and burning tyres in Mozambique’s “food riots” to see what happens when extreme natural phenomena interact with our unjust economic systems. Read the rest of this entry »
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The future climate for development
By Info | July 20, 2010
DFID, 20 July 2010
Climate change will reverse years of work reducing poverty without strong, urgent action, according to a report released today.
The future climate for development calls on governments and NGOs to build climate change into their economic development programmes to help low-income countries manage its impacts and seize new opportunities as the world shifts to a low-carbon economy. Read the rest of this entry »
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Hard times delay MDGs for Lesotho
By Info | June 28, 2010
IRIN News, 25 June 2010
Life is mostly hard in the mountainous kingdom of Lesotho, but the chronic droughts that seem to signal the unfolding impact of climate change are projected to become more severe, and could squeeze cultivable land from an already slim 10 percent to a mere three percent in 25 years. Read the rest of this entry »
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Drinking the fog
By Info | April 14, 2010
Article by IRIN, 13 April 2010
Gcinikaya Mpumza, mayor of a small municipality perched high in the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa, was saddled with a huge problem: more than half the residents did not have access to water. It was a question of money.
“We are a rural municipality with insufficient revenue, and providing water with conventional systems [piping it] in most of the areas cost a lot of money,” he told IRIN. Read the rest of this entry »
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South Africa: World Bank Approves Eskom Loan
By Info | April 9, 2010
Article from allAfrica, 9 April 2010
The World Bank has thrown Eskom the lifeline it was so desperately seeking by approving a $3.75 billion loan to help South Africa secure its electricity supply.
The Bank said in a statement late yesterday that the loan – the Bank’s first major lending engagement with South Africa since the fall of apartheid 16 years ago – aimed to benefit the poor directly, through jobs created as the economy bounces back from the global financial crisis and through additional power capacity to expand access to electricity.
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