Large regions in northern, southern, and central-western Africa, as well as northern Madagascar, are experiencing severe drought conditions due to two or more years of lower-than-average rainfall and ...

Magude District, in Mozambique's Maputo Province, has long lived under the shadow of drought. Families face dwindling harvests, dry rivers, and long daily walks in search of water. Season after season ...

Tens of millions of people in Southern Africa are suffering the effects of an El Nino-induced drought, a regional bloc has warned, with a drop in crop and livestock production causing food shortages ...

Every day, Takawira Mudzviti takes his six herd of cattle to his village's last drinking point, a dam along the dried-up Mudzi River. The Chibundu Dam, at its lowest levels in the past 20 years ...

A new report documents some of the most widespread and damaging droughts in recorded history, between 2023 and 2025, affecting millions across Africa, the Mediterranean, Latin America and Southeast ...

An estimated 68 million people across the Southern African region have been affected by the effects of an El Nino-induced drought and are in need of urgent relief food, the Southern African Community ...

The recent pastoralist–farmer tensions reported in Kitui County, Kenya, are a powerful reminder that climate security is no longer an abstract policy debate. As drought conditions intensify in ...

Hosepipe bans have been announced in parts of England this summer. Following the driest spring in over a century, the Environment Agency has issued a medium drought risk warning, and Yorkshire Water ...

Samira Abdi fixes worried eyes on her six-year-old son as a nurse lays him gently in a weighing basin at a nutrition centre in the Melkadida refugee camp in Ethiopia’s eastern Somali region. Samira ...