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Ethiopia hosts the 10th EUMETSAT user Forum, which is organized every two year in Africa, at the end of September 2012.

The EUMETSAT Director General Alain Ratier stated “the 10th EUMETSAT user Forum in Africa will be of Particular importance, as it will be the 10th anniversary edition. It will mark the start of the MESA continental project, which is the continuation of PUMA and AMSED, led by the African Union Commission.”

The Somali Media for Environment,Science, Health and Agriculture (SOMESHA) mourns and concern the horrific butchery against Somalia wildlife by the Alshabab.

Dozens of Somali wildlife had been killed by the opposition group of
the Somalia’s government of alshabab and Somalia animals are still
under death displacement day by day in the area controlled by the
Islamist hardliners of Shabab.

Alshabab new trainees are continuing to kill the wildlife during their
training in order to make sure that they are well trained shooters.

By: Mark Majodina and Hailu Wudineh
(External Relations focal points of WMO with South Africa and Ethiopia Respectively)

Building Knowledge for Action to avert the Climate threat in East and Horn of Africa

The Kenyan-based African Insect Science for Food and Health (icipe) launched yesterday on 30th march, 2011 the most avoidable technology system, (ADOPT) Adaptation and Dissemination of the ‘Push-Pull’ Technology to Climate Change and is also a kind of preservation on agriculture approach for smallholder cereal livestock production in drier areas to withstand climate change.

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The tear from the earth causes human solidarity

On the 10th day of the 10th month of the 10th year of the millennium, more than 7,000 communities from more than 188 countries united for an unprecedented day of collaboration and grassroots climate action.

The Somali-based group, Media for Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture (SOMESHA), took part in the global movement on climate change action.

Dear Colleagues:

I wrote this recently and thought it might be useful for some of you to read. Feel free to challenge my reasoning if you think I've gone off the reservation.

What I have been studying suggests that human impact on ecosystem function, while extremely complex can be understood by everyone. Indeed it must be understood by everyone if we as humanity, are going to change what can now be seen to be a predictable and probable catastrophic outcome.

I have learned that in science we must not assume things to be true, they must be proven.

After the climate change conference in Kampala, we got some stories as listed below that were written by the participants. Please click on the links to rad the stories.

http://www.dailynews.co.tz/home/?n=10428&cat=home
http://dailynews.co.tz/home/?n=10565&cat=home
http://dailynews.co.tz/home/?n=10538&cat=home
http://www.kbc.co.ke/story.asp?ID=64412

1.Journalists, scientists to discuss climate change
[http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Farming/-/689860/920852/-/xbc953/-/index.html]

2. Journalists want farmers to pay attention to the weather forecast

Animals in a death displacement, climate of fear and fraudulent trade

The National Association of Somali Science and Environmental Journalist (NASSEJ) is very glad to explain in this report the entire situation of Somali wildlife although its not easy to make ground reporting while the country is still anarchic situation.

By: John D. Liu,
Assistant Professor, George Mason University, Center for Climate and Society

What we have seen in observing and documenting pockets of poverty in various places around the world is that ecological degradation and grinding poverty go hand in hand. In order to address one it is necessary to address the other as well. Now because of global disruptions to ecosystems (e.g. climate change) we can see that poverty and degradation somewhere is poverty and degradation everywhere.

As the world moves toward Copenhagen and I hear the main
discussion about enhanced CDM, REDD, CCS, Geo-engineering, Cap
and Trade and the rest, I'm not left with a feeling of
confidence and I don't know anyone who is. It seems as if these
measures will fail and I don't actually see how they could
succeed because they all leave the fundamental underlying causes
of the problem intact.

This makes me philosophical about Earth's Hope.

What working on "Earth's Hope" has shown me is that the earth's
ecosystems have suffered from understandable impacts that

You are welcome to this blog, which is dedicated to the experience, issues raised and lessons learnt from the journalists’ training I have undertaken with the Uganda Media Development Foundation (UMDF) on environmental and climate change training.
More information on this project and photos can be found at estanakkazi@blogspot.com

I am facilitating workshops in over 35 districts in Uganda but with 10 stations where journalists converge to train. This blog is where am documenting some of my experiences and how much journalists know and report on the environment and climate change.

African governments are continuing to join the worldwide rush to develop biofuels in response to record oil prices. Their leaders perceive opportunities for their country’s energy security and agricultural revitalization. They also want to transform the source of rural energy supply from biomass away from dung and wood toward biofuels. Some countries plan to benefit from biofuels through clean development mechanisms (CDMs) for climate change mitigation (e.g., reducing carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas).

Floods have again hit Uganda cutting off three districts in the remote Karamoja region in northeastern Uganda.
Two soldiers who were in the region on a disamament excecise have died as a result of the floods after they were swept away while trying to cross overflooded rivers.
The floods have also affected the districts of Tororo, Soroti and Nebbi.
Some schools in Tororo have been closed while in Nebbi district, 150 prisoners had to be relocated after their prison got submerged

Floods have again hit Uganda cutting off three districts in the remote Karamoja region in northeastern Uganda.
Two soldiers who were in the region on a disamament excecise have died as a result of the floods after they were swept away while trying to cross overflooded rivers.
The floods have also affected the districts of Tororo, Soroti and Nebbi.
Some schools in Tororo have been closed while in Nebbi district, 150 prisoners had to be relocated after their prison got submerged