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Urgent Action Needed to Prevent Humanitarian Catastrophe in Sudan as the Lean Season Begins
12th April 2024, Nairobi, Kenya: As Sudan faces one of the most severe humanitarian crises in recent history, urgent action is needed to prevent a looming humanitarian tragedy. This is as the escalation of the conflict, which erupted on 15 April 2023, threatens to put millions into the worst levels of acute food insecurity and malnutrition.
Multi-sectoral humanitarian needs have reached new, alarming highs as a result of livelihood disruptions, large-scale displacement, interruptions of trade routes and markets, and limited humanitarian access, among other challenges. These needs are likely to escalate steeply as the lean season begins, especially …
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10 Climate Change Podcasts to get you started with Climate Action
By Marta Baraibar
Outrage and Optimism
Led by ex-Secretary General of the UNFCCC, Christiana Figueres, this Podcast covers the latest news from science, business, finance, politics, and culture every Thursday with a can-do …
50 Years of Disaster Data
by Thabang Doreen Lebese, Linda Ogallo, and Marta Baraibar
© iZeno
The WMO has just released an Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes (1970–2019) assessing the impacts of …
Insights on Public Information for Weather and Climate
by Kristine Skarsvåg
© canva
At the ICPAC training week in early June, Clare Nullis from WMO talked to the participants about how to handle the media. She has twenty years of journalistic experience, after …
Are We Getting Better At Predicting Future Climate?
By Collins Ochieng Onyaga
With contributions from the ICPAC Climate Change Technical Working Group
© Africa 1971 2000 mean temperature
The Earth’s climate has changed a lot over the past billion years and at the …
Drier and Warmer Season Forecasted to Continue Across Eastern Africa
Rainfall Forecast for October - December 2021
Temperature Forecast for October - December 2021
26 August 2021, Nairobi: The upcoming rainfall season, October to December, is an important season for Uganda, Kenya, northern Tanzania, southern …
Translating IPCC Working Group One Report into Action for Eastern Africa
By Patricia Nying’uro
With contributions from the ICPAC Climate Change Technical Working Group
© Global Temperatures 1880–2019 — Environmental Graphiti
The IPCC just recently released the first of three scientific reports that will make up …