The climate crisis is fueling one of the worst droughts on record across the Horn of Africa, with up to 13 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia facing severe hunger, reports NaijaAgroNet.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Climate crisis fuels drought, severe hunger across Horn of Africa - NaijaAgroNet
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The climate crisis is fueling one of the worst droughts on record across the Horn of Africa, with up to 13 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia facing severe hunger, reports NaijaAgroNet.According to ActionAid’s emergency teams, with millions of people still recovering from the devastating drought that hit the region in 2017, a large-scale response is urgently needed to avert a catastrophic food and malnutrition crisis.
The climate crisis is fueling one of the worst droughts on record across the Horn of Africa, with up to 13 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia facing severe hunger, reports NaijaAgroNet.
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Power generation exceeds 4,000mw in Nigeria
Federal Government of Nigeria may have exceeded 4,000 mega watts
(mw) which saw to increase in power supply to homes, offices and business across
the country, according to the Kande Daniel, special adviser, media and
communication to the minister of power, Prof. Chinedu Ositadimma Nebo, reports NaijaAgroNet.
A press
statement endorsed by Kande Daniel and sighted by NaijaAgroNet informed that after
grid information was released last weekend, Nigeria’s generation capacity has
gone up in excess of 4,000mw to 4,105.90mw as at last Tuesday.
Daniel
further revealed a breakdown of how generated capacity was shared, with the
industrial nerve-centre Lagos and environs getting the highest, a maximum load
totaling 985.0mw, while the maximum load allocated to Abuja through Katampe and
Gwagwalada power line was 410.80mw.
NaijaAgroNet
recalls that Nigeria’s generation capacity as at mid last week stood at
3,795.30mw.
“The latest
grid information has dismissed insinuations in some sections of the media that
power generation dropped to less than 2,000mw,” Daniel declared.
Pointing
out to NaijaAgroNet that the
general view since mid-last week suggests that many households now enjoy
enhanced power supply in their domains.
The
ministry went on to assure on government’s resolve to consolidate efforts at
removing all bottlenecks to sufficient power supply.
Isaac Oyimah/GEE
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