By Brian Kenety Climate change is increasingly acting as a threat multiplier in the Lake Chad Basin, exacerbating insecurity, ...

But the climate and weather on this great continent is amazingly varied. The Sahara desert can often reach temperatures of 50 ...

Women are an important and often underutilized human resource in Africa. They've faced many problems historically. Limited access to land, finance, education and decision-making platforms have meant ...

African climate negotiators at the COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan have delivered a clear and urgent message – climate diplomacy must hold steady amid escalating global crises, from wars in ...

The inaugural Africa Climate Summit drew to a close on Wednesday, with the host, Kenya’s president William Ruto, saying that a total of $23 billion had been pledged to green projects by governments, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Climate change is having a compounding impact on Africa, while ...

A new international study highlights the severity of climate change impacts across African mountains, how farmers are adapting, and the barriers they face—findings relevant to people living in ...

President of Kenya William Ruto (C) surrounded by other African leaders at the Africa Climate Summit 2023 in Nairobi. Photo by Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images 2023 is highly likely to be the hottest ...

The third Women’s Climate Assembly (WCA) took place recently in Dakar, Senegal, bringing together roughly 150 women activists and community leaders from 14 West and Central African countries. The ...

Delegates walk past a backdrop for the Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2) during the opening of the High-Level Leaders Summit in Addis Ababa, on September 8, 2025. Credit - Luis Tato—Getty Images As ...

At the close of an inaugural summit on climate change hosted this week by the African Union and the government of Kenya, activists who had demanded more than carbon credits and other glossy solutions ...

Weak surveillance and climate change could allow deadly hantaviruses to spread unnoticed across African countries, raising ...