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IGAD Member States and Partners Strengthen Regional Preparedness Against Transboundary Pest Threats Amid El Niño Concerns
IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC), successfully convened the 9th Steering Committee and Technical Working Group meetings of the Inter-Regional Platform for the Sustainable Management of Desert Locust and Other Transboundary Pests from 3–5 November 2026 in Nairobi, Kenya.
The three-day meeting brought together representatives from seven IGAD Member States alongside regional and international technical partners, including the Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa (DLCO-EA), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI), CropLife Africa and Middle East and the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD). …
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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 …