NIGER: Amoumene, “Sometimes, I think I am close to losing my mind”
AGADEZ, 27 August 2008 (IRIN) - Amoumene, 27 years old (not his real name) fled fighting last November in the Air Mountains, coming south to Agadez, one of the largest towns in Niger’s north.
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NIGER: Northern desert conflict disrupts maternal health care
AGADEZ, 26 August 2008 (IRIN) - All she saw was blood. Ouma Ibrahim knew it was not normal to have so much blood after delivering her son at home. She consulted a midwife at the nearby Dagamanet Clinic near her Agadez home, who sent her to the regional hospital five kilometres away.
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WEST AFRICA: Coastline to be submerged by 2099
ACCRA, 25 August 2008 (IRIN) - Swathes of West Africa’s coastline extending from the orange dunes in Mauritania to the dense tropical forests in Cameroon will be underwater by the end of the century as a direct consequence of climate change, environmental experts warn.
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GLOBAL: Pressure on to reach emissions agreement
ACCRA, 22 August 2008 (IRIN) - Industrialised and developing countries will be under intense pressure to agree on greenhouse gas emission reduction targets during week-long negotiations over future greenhouse gas emission targets which kicked off in the Ghana capital Accra on 21 August.
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GLOBAL: Cyclones, storms and hurricanes
JOHANNESBURG, 21 August 2008 (IRIN) - One symptom of climate change is more severe tropical cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons, featuring in the headlines more often.
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WEST AFRICA: Flood relief efforts continue
DAKAR, 15 August 2008 (IRIN) - Disaster relief teams have fanned out across West Africa to assess how badly the region was hit during the past month of heavy rains. Tens of thousands were affected in Togo, Burkina Faso, Niger, Liberia and Mauritania according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA).
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GLOBAL: What we are doing about climate change
JOHANNESBURG, 5 August 2008 (IRIN) - In developing countries, where survival is often a daily struggle, people cannot afford to wait for their government to bail them out. Many are living in the grip of climate change, coping with frequent droughts, heavy flooding, intense cyclones and other extreme weather events, and have found ways to adapt:
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NIGER-NIGERIA: Border on high-alert for bird flu
DAKAR, 4 August 2008 (IRIN) - Niger’s Ministry of Livestock is intensifying its bird surveillance along the 1,500-kilometre border with northern Nigeria after a recent resurgence of bird deaths.
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GLOBAL: Food aid on the back burner as WTO talks collapse
JOHANNESBURG, 4 August 2008 (IRIN) - As countries grapple with high food prices, attempts to draw attention to an inefficient food aid delivery system have been pushed to the back burner after the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks collapsed last week.
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GLOBAL: What climate change does - The 2nd in a three-part series
JOHANNESBURG, 31 July 2008 (IRIN) - The world can expect to become about 0.2°C warmer per decade for the next two decades, according to several scenarios prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). Even if the concentrations of all greenhouse gases and aerosols were kept constant at the levels they were in 2000, further warming of about 0.1°C per decade would still be expected.
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