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Helping communities in arid and semi-arid lands to respond to climate change

2016-03-05 00:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

IPP Media: In some parts of Singida, Dodoma, Shinyanga and Manyara regions, all of which form part of the semi-arid region of Tanzania, the rainy season in 2014/15 did not start in November as expected. This had been the case in at least six previous seasons. The situation which experts have linked to climate change has had devastating impacts of on the lives and livelihoods of many Tanzanians but dryland communities have been and are set to be among the worst affected. The people living in the drylands...

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U.S. sends elite disaster experts to respond to Ethiopia drought

2016-03-03 20:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The United States is sending an elite team of disaster experts to respond to Ethiopia's worst drought in 50 years, it said on Thursday. Around a dozen members of the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) have arrived in Ethiopia to coordinate the U.S. response to the drought. They will be joined by DART logistics, nutrition, and water, sanitation and hygiene experts in the next few days. USAID responds to around 65 disasters a year,...

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