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|style="background:#efefef;"|[[Image:climate change africa.png|left|70px|link=The Climate African Farmers Counted On Is Gone ]]
|December 15, 2015 <br> [[The Climate African Farmers Counted On Is Gone ]] <br>''Not realizing that the climate has shifted for good, they fail to significantly adjust their farming practices or to demand the resources, tools, and skills needed to adapt to the altered environment.''
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|style="background:#efefef;"|[[Image:climate change africa.png|left|70px|link=Uganda gets $1.5m lifeline against El Niño impact ]]
|December 10, 2015 <br> [[Uganda gets $1.5m lifeline against El Niño impact]]<br>''The fund will be used to support preparedness to “reduce the damaging impact of the heavy rains on children in many parts of the country,” Unicef top official in Uganda, Mrs Aida Girma, said.''
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|style="background:#efefef;"|[[Image:climate change africa.png|left|70px|link=Kenya’s Rain Lady shows Paris climate change summit how to battle drought ]]
|November 28, 2015 <br> [[ Kenya’s Rain Lady shows Paris climate change summit how to battle drought]]<br>''Every day at 9am she lifts her calibrated rain gauge up to her eye, and writes the result in her official meteorological notebook, to be sent to the Kenyan capital.''
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|style="background:#efefef;"|[[Image:climate change africa.png|left|70px|link=View on Gender: Exclusion endangers climate fight ]]
|November 24, 2015 <br> [[View on Gender: Exclusion endangers climate fight ]]<br>''And this does not just apply in ‘softer’ areas, such as encouraging women to join in climate negotiations, but also to the design and use of technologies for climate mitigation and their transfer to developing nations.''
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|style="background:#efefef;"|[[Image:climate change africa.png|left|70px|link=Another R96.6m for drought relief ]]
|November 19, 2015 <br> [[Another R96.6m for drought relief ]]<br>''This [relief efforts] includes the purchase of 45 water tankers for distribution of water to affected areas, borehole drilling and rehabilitation, water conservation and demand management, and water source augmentations.''
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|style="background:#efefef;"|[[Image:climate change africa.png|left|70px|link=One-Third of Papua New Guineans Suffering Drought Crisis]]
|November 13, 2015 <br> [[One-Third of Papua New Guineans Suffering Drought Crisis ]]<br>''An estimated one-third of the population of Papua New Guinea, the most populous Pacific Island state, is now suffering in from the country’s worst drought this century and experts predict El Nino’s influence will carry on through March 2016.''
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|style="background:#efefef;"|[[Image:climate change africa.png|left|70px|link=How smart farmers in Kenya are coping with climate change ]]
|August 29, 2015 <br> [[How smart farmers in Kenya are coping with climate change]]<br>''From maize to fish to tomato wheat and dairy farmers, they have all realised they must do things differently to cope with this new and harsh reality called climate change.''
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|style="background:#efefef;"|[[Image:climate change africa.png|left|70px|link=Extreme weather set to foil Sahel knowledge ]]
|April 12, 2015 <br> [[Extreme weather set to foil Sahel knowledge ]]<br>''[Local people] will no longer have the tools in their technical arsenal or the genetic diversity of cultivated species needed to respond. Help must come from outside.''
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