Climate and Transport

By David Luganda - NECJOGHA The Uganda National Meteorological Authority (UNMA) has predicted enhanced rainfall for agriculture activities for months of May, April, May rain season in Uganda. The years’ localized...

IGAD launches Hazards Watch for East Africa by Abubakr A. M. Salih, Erick Otenyo, Marta Baraibar and Viola Otieno East Africa Hazards Watch The East Africa...

The Project is also in line with the African Union Theme for the year 2021 “Art’s Culture and Heritage: Levers for Building the Africa We Work as it aims to tap into the...

By David Luganda – NECJOGHA /AFMC Kampala, Uganda: The Fifty-Seventh Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum (GHACOF 57) will convene to decide on the forecast for the March-April-May rain season.

  By Andrew Kaggwa and David Luganda, NECJOGHA Experts at the just concluded Fifty Sixth Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum (GHACOF56) have predicted a drier than usual spell in the region from October to December. “The consolidated objective climate forecast...

Geneva, 9 July 2020 – The annual mean global temperature is likely to be at least 1° Celsius above pre-industrial levels (1850-1900) in each of the coming five years (2020-2024) and there is a 20% chance that it will...

By ENID NINSIIMA & JOEL KAGUTA, Daily Monitor/ NECJOGHA  Residents of Kasese District in western Uganda woke up on Sunday to another wave of flash floods three days after the torrents hit the district when four major rivers burst their...

By BBC NEWS  Scientists say global warming could have a catastrophic effect on the planet. Human activities have increased carbon-dioxide emissions, driving up temperatures. Extreme weather and melting polar ice are among the possible effects. What is climate change? The Earth's average temperature...

By David Luganda, AFMC NAIROBI, Kenya – The Intergovernmental Authority on Development Climate Prediction and Applications Center (ICPAC) has predicted above normal rainfall over Kenya, eastern Uganda, Rwanda, central Burundi, and Somalia, much of Ethiopia, eastern South Sudan, Djibouti, Eritrea...

By Andrew Kaggwa, NECJOGHA Nairobi, Kenya – A regional food security organisation has warned that East Africa faces a food crisis due to the ongoing Covid16 pandemic. “The rising number of corona virus (COVID-19) cases in the East Africa region are of...