Nigeria’s northern region is experiencing continuous armed violence and a decline in rainfall as a result of climate change, both of which are hurting the region’s mainly artisanal farming population and worsening food insecurity. The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) foresaw this climatic anomaly and issued reports about the late onset and early cessation of rains […]
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On a Saturday evening in November last year, a pickup truck came to a stop in front of an Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Women, including 32-year-old Rifkatu James and 25-year-old Hakuri Yusuf, emerged from the vehicle, announcing their return from their farms. The children, spotting them, rushed out joyfully to greet […]
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Climate Change and the Lake Chad Crisis: A Convers | RSS.com In recent years, Borno State has grappled with annual flooding, a stark contrast to the receding waters of the Lake Chad. These extreme weather events, predicted by climate scientists, are frequent. This week on #TheCrisisRoom, we ask Dr. Dogo Saje, a lecturer and climate […]
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Loba Ewalla, 11, and nine-year-old Nkongo Ewalla are on their school summer holidays, but their grandfather has kept them busy turning bottles into brooms. They learnt the art of this transformation living with their grandfather in Nkongsamba, Littoral region of Cameroon. Plastic bottles were spoiling Ewalla Ntouba’s farm, drifting into his fields on the wind, […]
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This time of year the weather in the northern part of Nigeria changes from the cool-dry harmattan to the hot season that will last from March to May. As tens of thousands of displaced people across the country will tell you, this makes living in makeshift camps, in huts built of heavy plastic, unbearable. As […]
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The rainy season in Nigeria’s economic capital, Lagos state, has become synonymous with submerged cars, homes, and commuters wading through knee-high floodwaters as the coastal city wrestles with the impact of flooding and the depletion of wetlands paving way for urbanisation as well as an appetite for affluent neighbourhoods. Lagos’s persistent vulnerability to intense rainfall […]
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As the world is celebrating World Humanitarian Day on Thursday, Aug. 19, Save the Children has called for actions by the government and other stakeholders in raising awareness on what the climate crisis means to people, and its impact on Nigeria, especially in the Northeast and possible activity that can be done to reduce the […]
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The story of the Lake Chad region has been that of a shrinking freshwater lake, instability, and a wide-scale humanitarian crisis. Recent studies have shown that the Lake is stable but the region is caught in a complex web of conflict, resource deprivation, impoverishment and changing climate. Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, on […]
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For more than three decades, at least one million people have depended on the old Gwalaida well to fetch water for their basic needs that include drinking, washing, and cooking in Kunci Local Government in Kano State, Northwest Nigeria. But advancing Sahara desert, induced by climate change, has made sourcing for water a struggle for […]
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The water scarcity in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria has worsened over the past decade due to the increase in persons displaced by insurgency, a report by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, has said. According to the report, the harmattan season in the Sahel region which lasts from Nov. to May […]
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A United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and University of Oxford survey released in January has shown a direct link between a person’s level of education and their desire for climate action. The UNDP’s “Peoples’ Climate Vote” by 1.2 million respondents is considered the world’s largest survey of public opinion on climate change. Although the survey […]
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Nigeria’s food security is under attack as climate change continues to disrupt farming activities for smallholders. 70 per cent of rural dwellers are subsistence farmers, who produce about 90 per cent of Nigeria’s food. According to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the disruption by climate change is affecting food production across the country. […]
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