Environment & Climate Change
HumAngle’s Climate Desk researches, evaluates information about climate change, its characteristics, causes and impacts, and ways to mitigate it.
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Flood Submerges IDP Camp, Homes In Maiduguri, Northeast Nigeria
Residents in parts of Maiduguri, Borno State capital are lamenting the loss of their properties to recent flooding. HumAngle reports…
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ICRC: Triple Emergencies As Lake Chad Herders Battle COVID-19, Violence and Climate Change
COVID-19 restriction is compounding livelihood stresses and impact of climate change on herders in Lake Chad. The International Committee of…
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Kano State Government Votes N199 Million To Revive 2 Dams For Enhanced Water Supply
The Kano State Government is to spend N199 million to conduct repairs on Watari Dam and the irrigation dam in…
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Need For Effective Management Of Forest Areas To Check Terrorism And Other Crimes
Terrorist groups across Northern Nigeria are exploiting forest areas, including reserves designated as protected forest zones by the government for…
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Climate change: UK Government to support Nigeria’s efforts to reduce emissions
The UK has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Nigerian to support the development of Nigeria’s Energy Calculator 2050…
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Cameroon To Witness Drop In Tree Cultivation As Timber Export Falls
There was a negative drop by 2.4 percent in tree cultivation and reforestation in 2019 as compared to 2018. Reports…
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Sierra Leone: ‘Peace Mothers’ in Conflict Train On Early Warning Systems, Mediation and Reconciliation
Two Chiefdoms, Kagboro and Fakunia in the Moyamba District in Sierra Leone will benefit from a two-day training of 100…
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Cameroon Spends $2 Million Annually On “Green Sahel” Reforestation Project
In its fight against desertification in the three northern regions of Cameroon, the government launched an operation of afforestation dubbed…
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Desertification Threatens Livelihoods In Northern Nigeria
Nigeria’s Minister of Environment, Dr Mohammed Abubakar, at an event to mark 2020 World desertification day in Abuja, disclosed that…
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Deforestation, Climate Change Endanger Freetown’s Water Supply
To combat massive logging and climate change, five million trees are to be planted across Sierra Leone between now and…
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