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Drought and Frost Resistant Crop Seeds to be Distributed in El Niño Affected Areas
Approved for Release: 9 November 2015 The Prime Minister, Hon. Peter O’Neill CMG MP, has announced that seedlings for hybrid drought resistant crops that can better cope with El Niño conditions will […]
El Niño may trigger floods, famine and sickness in much of the world
Monte Morin LA Times A fog of suffocating smoke settles over the Indonesian countryside, sickening hundreds of thousands of people and triggering an environmental crisis. In Peru, officials abandon plans to […]
We must always be prepared for disaster
By J.W. WACHIRA In the run-up to El Niño, there has been a wide range of reactions to the advice of our meteorological services. These reactions have mirrored changes in Kenyan […]
Shades of Chaos
“Lessons Learned about Lessons Learned about Forecasting El Niño and its Impacts” Michael H. Glantz, 2015 The troubled forecast of El Niño’s onset in 2014 requires an explanation as well as an […]
Ethiopia’s agriculture boom yields a bare harvest for poor as El Niño bites
Ethiopia may be portrayed as an emerging African powerhouse, but prolonged drought has left 8.2 million people facing a major food security crisis William Davison in Mieso district Monday 26 October 2015 […]
El-nino: health issues directives to districts
Publish Date: Oct 26, 2015 By Joyce Namutebi THE ministry of health has announced mitigation measures to curb disease outbreaks that El- nino rains are likely to cause in various parts […]