Viva Freddy: How the cyclone broke 16 records in 37 days

DTE reportage tracking Cyclone Freddy from Australia to Africa

Crying fowl

Long live Freddy: Cyclone which travelled across Indian Ocean, has survived for 32 days courtesy climate change

Warming due to human-induced greenhouse gases is absorbed by the oceans, increasing their heat content; this helps strengthen cyclones

Cyclone Freddy which travelled across Indian Ocean, survived for 32 days courtesy climate change

Horizontal wind shear are the horizontal winds around a cyclone. When these winds have lower speeds they help a cyclone grow in strength and when …

Comics workshop

There's a different way comics -- a mixed narrative form that uses text and images, what American cartoonist Art Spiegelmann called 'comix' -- …

Offshore gas finds offered major promise for Mozambique: what went wrong

There have been no material benefits for the people of Cabo Delgado and many locals were evicted 

Paradise lost

Omicron in southern Africa: How the region reacted after the variant emerged

Mozambique case study shows that poverty is about much more than income

Representing poverty as a well-defined objective condition focuses attention on symptoms and risks diverting attention away from underlying …

Cyclone Idai batters southern Africa; 120 dead, many more missing

Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi affected in the ‘worst disaster to hit the region’

African countries launch Renewable Energy Initiative in Paris

AREI aims to achieve 10 GW of new renewable installation by 2020, and expand the generation capacity to 300 GW by 2030

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Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: Antibiotic use trends in Mozambique’s veterinary sector and efforts to contain it

The country imports most of its veterinary antibiotics from the Netherlands, India, Argentina, South Africa, France and China  

195% more Africans affected due to extreme weather events in 2019

Extreme events are also predicted for the first half of 2020 in the continent

Africa Climate Week: Cyclone Idai highlights urgent need of climate finance

The cyclone is already being touted as one of the worst natural disasters in the southern hemisphere

This coastal village in Mozambique now at the mercy of Chinese mining company

Local residents want the government to probe into company's operations and negotiate compensation for irresponsible sand mining

Climate change: Southeastern Africa stares at future with extreme rainfall, floods

Lack of weather data is an obstacle to quantifying the climate link in the region

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Climate shocks, conflicts worsen displacement in Mozambique: UNHCR

Mozambique dealing with climate-induced migration in south, conflict-induced migration in north

Water, Africa’s Gold: One crisis too many

Africa is caught in a vortex of poverty, water and disease

Lion hunting only makes sense if it's part of a package of interventions

New research from Zambia's Luangwa Valley identifies reforms needed for lion trophy hunting

Flourishing unaided

The AIDS epidemic shows no sign of abating with five million new cases reported in 2001