El Nino Stories
Looking ahead to 2025, scientists predict it is unlikely to be another record-breaking year.
Extreme weather has swept around the world in 2024, with severe drought hitting Italy and South America, fatal floods in Nepal, Sudan and Europe.
The report identifies 16 hunger hotspots worldwide, including Kenya, where climate-related events, conflict, and economic instability are pushing vuln...
The uncertainty and fear associated with climate change heighten anxiety among young people.
Local pastoralist communities were advised to sell their large stock of animals and restock them during the rainy seasons.
September to have a combination of dry and rainy days.
According to the report, 62 primary schools were submerged by the floods, putting around 15,000 students at risk of missing school.
"The grant will provide access to education for girls and boys, enhance preparedness, and create an anticipatory action framework ahead of future clim...
The rains caused the deaths of two children, injured one person, and displaced 325 others.
Instead, they pointed to climate change as a key driver of the intense rainfall, making the event twice as likely and five per cent more intense.
According to the report released on May 20, some 6,770 schools have been damaged and 6,410 closed, while 10.31 million people need humanitarian aid.
Zimbabwe is among the worst-hit countries by the El Nino-induced drought in Southern Africa, with Zambia and Malawi also facing food shortages this ye...
County Coordinator Daud Ahmed noted that with the River Tana flooding, more water could flow to parts of Garissa and Tana River counties.
Business people in Garissa town say they are unable to restock their empty shelves as the Garissa-Nairobi highway has been cut off.
The sharp contrast has been attributed to climate change and human activities that have fast-tracked the phenomenon.
Residents of Bulla Punda, Kamor, Sheikh, Vumbi, Windsor, and Bulla Nyuki were forced to move to higher ground after the floodwaters engulfed their hou...
Issa Adan, representing Voice of Peace for All in Africa organisation (VOPA), highlighted the targeted assistance towards those who have been severely...
This was the heaviest recorded rainfall in UAE in a 24-hour period since 1949.
The coastal region of the East African country is one of the worst affected, an official says.
Hundreds of families have so far been affected by floods in Nairobi, Baringo, Mwea, Tana River, and Kirinyaga since the onset of the long rain season.
There are fears that the area could be marooned soon after heavy downpour in the neighbouring counties of Meru and Laikipia resulted in the swelling o...
The Seven Forks Dams are almost spilling over, government agency says, asking residents to move to higher and safer grounds.
Kenya Meteorological Department Director General, David Gikungu, also warned the country to anticipate heavy rainfall over the next three months.
The agency said that rainfall is expected from the first week of April until the end of the month
Nearly 4,400 cases and 54 deaths had been recorded in nearly half of all districts in Somalia since the beginning of the year.
In the last few months of 2023, the rainy season was much wetter than normal, bringing severe flooding to Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania.
Governor Dhadho says the eco-villages, also known as the cluster programme, are an absolute solution to the perennial disasters.
