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The African Federation of Environmental Journalists (AFEJ) comes after online consultations among the African environmental journalists particularly for those who are the members of the International Federation of Environmental Journalists (IFEJ). It aims to unite African affiliates of the International Federation of Environmental Journalists to better meet challenges faced by the people of Africa across the continent.

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The Kenyan-based African Insect Science for Food and Health (icipe) launched yesterday on 30^th march, 2011 the most avoidable technology system, (ADOPT) Adaptation and Dissemination of the ‘Push-Pull’ Technology to Climate Change and is also a kind of preservation on agriculture approach for smallholder cereal livestock production in drier areas to withstand climate change.

Somalia: Patriotic Move from the Youth of the Land

For almost two decades Somalia has not had a central government and Somalis are under violent behaviour since the collapse of Siad Barre regime in 1991. Somalia has experienced dramatic environmental shifts following two decades of insecurity and chaos in the country.

Somalia is on the way from anarchy and chaos to green revolution through her agricultural technology

For almost two decades Somalia has great experience of war and violence and her economy was based on agriculture, Livestock and fishing before the civil war.

Somalia is one of the Semi-arid countries in east and horn of Africa and the most of her land is good for farming. There is also two distinct cropping system, rain-fed and irrigated are found in Somalia and the most important food crops are sorghum and maize.

The sustained conflict in Somalia reduced the community collaboration and wiped-out their relations from village to region and this caused lack of effective community mobilization when the natural and man-made disasters occur.

The Somali Media for Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture (SOMESHA) carried out a survey for the current climate situation nationwide in order to know its impacts and how the people are dealing with especially the vulnerable community in the war zone area at the country.

The Somali Media for Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture (SOMESHA) takes part in the global movement against the climate change.

Nairobi and Geneva, 12 April 2010(WMO) – More than 30 Ministers in charge of meteorology in Africaresponded to the international call of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), in partnership with the African Union, to meet for the first time. While the continent is the most vulnerable to climate change, Africais the least equipped to deal with its consequences.

The National Association of Somali Science and Environmental Journalist (NASSEJ) is very glad to explain in this report the entire situation of Somali wildlife although its not easy to make ground reporting while the country is still anarchic situation.