Uganda: ADRA Uganda Launches the Strength Project to Combat Climate Change in Karamoja, Acholi

Uganda: ADRA Uganda Launches the Strength Project to Combat Climate Change in Karamoja, Acholi

Karamoja, one of Uganda's most climate-vulnerable regions, faces rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and frequent droughts and floods, threatening food security, livelihoods, and natural resources.

WFH changes life of man with hemophilia in Uganda

World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) support in Uganda is provided through several initiatives, including the WFH Humanitarian Aid Program and the WFH Twinning Program, where the Haemophilia Foundation of Uganda (HFU) recently completed a Hemophilia Organization Twinning (HOT) with Wyoming/Montana (U.S.A). The WFH also supported the country in 2023 through a von Willebrand disease (VWD) grant to help increase identification rates of VWD and othe…

An investigation attributed the increase in the extreme rains that led to the floods that Bahía Blanca suffered to man-made climate change and not to the natural variability of the climate. Why these events could be more and more frequent and what to do about it. The rain that fell on Bahía Blanca, [...] The entry Floods and climate change: the case of Bahía Blanca was first published in AgendAR.

Floods, Droughts and Climate Change: How extreme weather is worsening East Africa’s food crisis - Africa Uncensored

Across East Africa, climate change is no longer a distant threat, but a daily crisis reshaping lives. From the rising waters of Lake Tanganyika swallowing farmland in Burundi to unpredictable rainfall devastating crops in Rwanda and Tanzania, extreme weather is fuelling food insecurity and economic strain. As food inflation increases and protests erupt in DRC and Kenya over the high cost of living, the effects of a changing climate are becoming …