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ACTION AGAINST HUNGER and the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) Launch Landmark ECHO-Funded Initiative to Build Anticipatory Action Systems Across the Horn of Africa
Nairobi, Kenya, 9 July 2026: Action Against Hunger (ACF) and the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) today launched “Institutionalising Interoperable Multi-Hazard Anticipatory Action” (IMPAACT), a two-year initiative co-funded by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO). The project aims to protect 243,801 people in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Djibouti from the compounding effects of climate-induced and conflict-driven humanitarian crises through coordinated, science-based anticipatory action.
The Greater Horn of Africa remains one of the world’s most disaster-prone regions, where recurrent drought, floods, conflict, and displacement intersect to generate predictable humanitarian crises. Despite the …
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ICPAC Launches Drought Watch System
by Grace Miswa, Viola Otieno, Erick Otenyo and Marta Baraibar

The East Africa Drought Watch (https://droughtwatch.icpac.net/) is the very first public transboundary system that uses near-real-time Earth Observation and Weather Information to monitor …
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

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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

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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 …