climate change

Crossposted from AFRIK-IT mailing list:

Two new papers on organisational strategy for climate change, ICTs and development are available online at: http://www.niccd.org/resources.htm

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.

Ahead of the kick-off of the 2010 World Cup on Friday, former UN Secretary-General and Chair of the Africa Progress Panel, Kofi Annan and United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador and football star Didier Drogba will today publish ‘Scoring for Africa – An Alternative Guide to the World Cup’.

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.

Almost, two decades Somalia has not had a central government and Somalis are under violent behaviour since the collabse of Siad Barre regime in 1991. Somalia has experienced dramatic environmental shifts following two decades of insecurity and chaos in the country. The protracted crisis has led to an unsustainable use of the country’s resources. Corrupt businessmen, warlords, and other violent radical groups, with the help of external spoilers, have contributed to deforestation and depletion of Somalia wildlife resources.

Somalia has been working to be a member to the united nation framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC). The Somali government On 10^th December, 2009 joined the UNFCCC, thus making Somalia the 194^th country of the organization. 

I am currently listening to Mohammad Yunus the coming disappearance of Bangladesh due to climate change, part of a fascinating panel kicking off this event. You can follow along using #bcsc09 hashtag on Twitter by clicking here.

Global Voices did a terrific roundup of blog posts from Africa for Blog Action Day: "Blog Action Day 2009 was an online event organized by Change.org. It was a virtual gathering of voices discussing climate change. Bloggers from a sampling of countries in Sub Saharan Africa were among those who posted their thoughts, and in this post, we get to listen to their voices." Read on for posts from Kenya, South Africa, Uganda and Ghana.

I just got this email below from the organizers of Blog Action Day. Please join in, and crosspost also at Kabissa to take advantage of this day to amplify African voices on climate change and Africa.

More than 7000 bloggers have registered to participate and thousands more will join in the next 24 hours. There's already buzz growing across the blogosphere and on Twitter in anticipation, with updates from around the world every minute about the upcoming event.

My Name is Dominion Bassey, I am just joining the discussion on the climate change in Africa, it the recent global issue right now, hope to make my use contribution to this global issue base on the experience of my involvement in climate change advocacy in Nigeria for the past sixteen years