Cassava is a starchy, tuberous root, introduced to sub-Saharan Africa by Portuguese traders centuries ago. It is a nutrition lifeboat for over 800 million people worldwide. Sub-saharan Africa ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Human-caused climate change worsened recent torrential rains and floods that devastated parts of southern Africa, killing more than 100 people and displacing hundreds of thousands, ...

As the global community huddles in negotiation for COP30, a stark message emerges from the African continent: the impacts of climate change are deepening economic losses and jeopardising health ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A flood victim stands at her flooded home after weeks of heavy rainfall in Boane District, Maputo, Mozambique, on 19 January, 2026 ...

The effects of climate change are no longer a future risk for Africa. They are a present crisis. Floods are destroying ...

Africa’s vulnerability to climate risk in the coming decades is at its highest, demanding effective and accountable action at a local, national, and international level 1. Almost half (45%) of the ...

New research published today in Nature warns climate change could substantially increase malaria burden in Africa over the coming decades. The study projects that a middle-of-the-road climate scenario ...

The “Samburu Special Five” — the reticulated giraffe, Grévy’s zebra, beisa oryx, gerenuk and Somali ostrich — exist only in northern Kenya, southern Ethiopia and Somalia, where they have evolved ...

Nonstate actors have adopted the “Cotonou Declaration” at the Climate Chance Africa 2025 summit. The summit featured renewable energy commitments as well as a road map for integrating adaptation as a ...

In the FRONTLINE documentary Alaska’s Vanishing Native Villages, residents of a coastal Alaska Native community called Hooper Bay confront a dilemma. Their way of life relies in part on harvesting ...

An agricultural economist and Ross-Lynn Scholar at Purdue University, Ifeanyi Obinefo, has raised concerns over Africa’s growing food insecurity, linking it to the twin crises of rising fertilizer ...