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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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African drought tames Victoria Falls' thunderous roar
2016-03-01 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Tourists staring in wonder at the full force of the Zambezi River cascading over Victoria Falls struggle to believe the region is suffering one of its worst ever droughts, but local guide Patrick Sakala knows all is not well. Flows have dropped to 30-year lows at the waterfall straddling Zambia and Zimbabwe's shared border, as poor rains and soaring temperatures take their toll across southern Africa. "At this time of year you usually wouldn't be able to hear me over the thunderous roar," Sakala...
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Morocco climate summit faces funding drought due to EU spat
2016-03-01 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Millions of Euros to help Morocco fund this Novembers UN climate summit in Marrakech are being withheld due to a diplomatic spat between the hosts and the European Union. Ties between Brussels and Rabat were suspended last week after the European Court of Justice binned an EU-Morocco agriculture deal covering the contested Western Sahara. The region has been held by Morocco since 1975, but the court said a trade agreement covering the area was invalid due to continued protests against Rabats...
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Barbados - 2016 sugar crop to nosedive following drought conditions
2016-03-01 07:18:17| Sugar Industry News
The 2016 sugar harvest, which is set to start on March 7, is likely to be one of the lowest in many years. With production this year projected at 85,000 tonnes of cane and 7,000 tonnes of raw sugar, industry officials fear a further blow to this sector ...
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For Ethiopia's famine survivors, new drought stirs hunger and fear
2016-03-01 01:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: When drought and pests decimated their farm in Ethiopia's northern Amhara region, 10-year-old Eseye Tiruneh and her family boarded a bus, fleeing the starvation all around them. It was 1985 and Ethiopia was in the grip of its worst famine, which killed around one million people. Ethiopia's communist regime resettled Eseye's family in Wollega, over 1,000 km (620 miles) southwest, as part of an ambitious plan to move more than a million people from the drought-affected north, where it was fighting...
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