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People plant mangroves during a community exercise to restore their habitat in Mtwapa, on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. In a bid to protect coastal communities from climate change and encourage investment, African nations are increasingly turning to mangrove restoration projects. (AP Photo)

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Growing African mangrove forests aim to combat climate woes
By WANJOHI KABUKURU - Associated Press
Fri,05/06/22-1:07AM , 295 Reads
MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — In a bid to protect coastal communities from climate change and encourage investment, African nations are increasingly turning to mangrove restoration projects, with Mozambique becoming the latest addition to the growing list of countries with large scale mangrove initiatives.
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Search and rescue team looking for bodies at Umzinyathi Falls after floods, in Inanda near Durban, South Africa, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Str, File)

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African wildlife, coasts suffer effects of flooding, drought
By WANJOHI KABUKURU - Associated Press
Wed,04/20/22-5:03AM , 304 Reads
MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Devastating floods in South Africa this week, as well as other extreme weather events across the continent linked to human-caused climate change, are putting marine and terrestrial wildlife species at risk, according t
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Mother Ayan Muhammed sits with her severely-malnourished baby boy Fahir, as he receives life-saving nutritional treatment, at a UNICEF-supported stabilization center at Gode Hospital in the Shabelle Zone of the Somali region of Ethiopia Tuesday, April 12, 2022. Agricultural workers in the east and Horn of Africa are preparing for their most severe drought in forty years, as authorities warn that higher temperatures and less than normal rainfall were recorded by weather agencies in March and April this year. (Zerihun Sewunet/UNICEF via AP)

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East and Horn of Africa prep for worst drought in decades
By WANJOHI KABUKURU - Associated Press
Thu,04/14/22-12:09AM , 387 Reads
MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Agricultural workers in the east and Horn of Africa are preparing for their most severe drought in 40 years, as authorities warn that higher temperatures and less than normal rainfall was recorded by weather agencies in March and April this year.
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Hilda Nakabuye, Fridays for Future activist from Uganda, speaks at the opening of the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, March 29, 2022. Climate activists are urging more banks and insurers not to back the controversial $5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline that is primed to transport oil from the Hoima oilfields in Uganda to the Tanzanian coastal city of Tanga. Influential climate activists Vanessa Nakate and Hilda Nakabuye have lent their support to opponents of the pipeline citing the need for Africa to stay away from fossil fuels. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP, file)

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East African oil pipeline hits the headwinds
By WANJOHI KABUKURU - Associated Press
Tue,04/12/22-4:15PM , 300 Reads
MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Climate activists — including influential campaigners Vanessa Nakate and Hilda Nakabuye — are urging more banks and insurers not to back the controversial $5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline th
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