Governments fall short in UN’s East Africa drought appeal
Donor countries promised only a third of the $7bn the UN was appealing for to provide humanitarian aid to drought-stricken Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.
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Ethiopia to shift from beef to chicken production under updated climate plan
The government is promoting smaller livestock to limit the rise of methane emissions, in a plan that is 80% dependent on international finance
Ethiopia’s bold EV ambitions hit bumps in rural areas
After becoming the world’s first country to ban imports of fossil fuel vehicles last year, a patchy power grid and high EV purchase costs are slowing Ethiopia’s green transport revolution in the countryside
Egypt faces water insecurity as Ethiopian mega-dam rumours swirl
Farmers along the lower Nile have little information to guide them as upriver barrage threatens to compound the impacts of global warming
Scientists say east Africa will get wetter, so why is it drying out?
Despite models predicting increased rainfall with climate change, the region has collapsed into drought – a puzzle known as the East African paradox
Sick of waiting, poor countries prepare to fight climate change alone
Developing countries have been promised $100bn per year by 2020, with no sign of it arriving some are taking matters into their own hands
Green Climate Fund ‘a laughing stock’, say poor countries
It was hydropower dams in, community drought readiness out, amid rich-poor tensions at the UN’s flagship climate finance scheme
Ethiopia suggests ‘means testing’ international climate efforts
Addis Ababa plan includes a five year review to decide if once poor countries should shoulder more of the burden of climate change action
Climate change linked to 2011 East Africa drought
UK Met Office report suggests human influence affected rainy seasons in East Africa ahead of catastrophic drought