Climate change and climate-induced migration in the Horn of Africa could seriously exacerbate security risks in the region.

Extreme rainfall and flooding across Sudan, Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and Chad this year led to thousands of deaths and millions of displacements, mirroring what occurred in the region in 2022.

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. Delegates walk past a backdrop for ...

Extreme weather is creating fertile ground for conflict in multiple regions of Africa, the Pentagon’s top Africa official said Tuesday. It’s also threatening the U.S.’s ability to maintain military ...

Prices of cocoa surged by 136% between July 2022 and February 2024, and climate extremes in West Africa’s cocoa belt, which produces 70% of the world’s cocoa, are partly to blame. Cocoa — the main ...

Over the next few decades, the choices governments, companies, and communities make on emissions and adaptation will determine whether those unlivable zones swallow hundreds of millions of people or ...

The Writer As climate extremes intensify across Africa, the need for accurate and timely weather prediction has become increasingly urgent.Floods, heatwaves, droughts, and air pollution events are ...

The U.N.’s recent “Adaptation Gap Report” reveals a massive shortfall between the funds needed for climate adaptation and the financing available as of 2023. Africa, among the most climate-vulnerable ...

In early 2023, an exceptionally powerful tropical cyclone formed over the Indian Ocean, sweeping over Madagascar and Mozambique before finally dissipating—after more than five weeks—over Malawi.

Director of the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI) at Stellenbosch University and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Plaform (KRISP)., Stellenbosch University Rising ...