COLONIALISM’S FINAL SOLUTION?
For the second year in a row, all ten of the most under-reported crises are in Africa. From conflict in Angola to climate change in Zimbabwe, every entry in this report represents countless human tragedies taking place in the shadows of the world’s gaze.
CARE, “Breaking the Silence, The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises in 2023
Read the full report and share it widely, that much at least is easily done
CJ4Africa Calls for IMMEDIATE End to the Genocide in Palestine
Read and share this HORRIFIC report by Save the Children on the slaughter of Palestinian children
German History in Namibia and the Genocide in Palestine
New: Cyclone Freddy Devastates Malawi – Photographs of a Climate Catastrophe
Cyclone Freddy’s Path of Destruction
Cyclone Freddy is NOT an isolated case.
Cyclone Freddy generated more ‘cyclone energy’ than an entire SEASON of hurricanes in the US. The chaos, destruction and death Freddy visited on Malawi and Mozambique are horrifying enough, viewed as an isolated case, a single freak storm.
But Freddy is the opposite of an isolated case – these countries, whose people emit less CO2 in a year than citizens in the US do in a week, are being BOMBARDED by record shattering cyclones.
This video on the back to back cyclones of historic destructive force that struck Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi in 2019 is compiled from Red Cross, UN and European news media reports.
CLIMATE GENOCIDE IN EAST AFRICA: 260,000 CHILDREN UNDER 5 STARVED TO DEATH IN 2021
“Deaths from hunger are not inevitable, and we have the tools, skills, and experience to reach children and their families before it’s too late. Countries that are bearing the brunt of the climate crisis must be supported for the damage that is already being done – that they themselves have played a very little part in creating. It is vital that we see the creation of a new climate finance mechanism for loss and damage by 2023. At the same time, we also need to see a drastic reduction in fossil fuels to limit warming temperatures and reduce these kinds of disasters.”
Kijala Shako, SAVE THE CHILDREN
Madagascar has been plunged into famine by a climate crisis it did nothing to create. Children are dying. Who will be their voice? Tell President Biden to come to their aid NOW.
260,000 East African babies starved in one year due to climate change, as documented by UN Relief Web & Save th
Climate Shock: The Human Toll of the Climate Crisis in Africa
“The climate crisis here is a permanent one, ripping away the coping mechanisms that people here have relied upon for generations to help see their communities and families through the lean times. This crisis is not an occasional headline – for the people of Southern Africa, it’s now a profound way of life.”
Nellie Nyang’wa, Oxfam’s Regional Director for Southern Africa
The 54 countries of the African continent are home to 17% of the world’s people, but produced less than 3% of the world’s cumulative CO2 emissions. Anglo-European countries are less than 15% of the world’s people, but produced 59% of those emissions. Yet it is Africa where climate catastrophe is not a future threat but a daily fact of life.
In Southern Africa, years of severe, prolonged drought have led to water supplies disappearing, massive levels of crop failure and 45 million human beings going hungry. Landslides and floods in East Africa impacted 3 million lives in just the last 3 months of 2019. Violent swings from drought to flood have unleashed a plague of locusts, threatening the food supply of tens of millions. Cyclones are more deadly, destructive and frequent. Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi were hit in 2019 by the first back to back cyclones ever recorded, leaving 2.5 million in dire need of humanitarian relief in Mozambique alone.
Most of Africa’s population gets its living from the land, in farming that is rainfall dependent. Across the continent, it is growing common for long dry seasons to be followed by rainfall that comes all at once, bringing flash floods and landslides. There is no time to recover from one “climate shock” before another begins. Life is not just becoming harder, it’s becoming impossible.
Right now, 80 percent of the world’s hungry people live in areas prone to natural disasters and extreme weather, which creates exactly the right conditions for hunger to take hold.
Gardens dry up. Houses are washed away. Farms and fisheries flood. When families lose everything and face inevitable hunger, they leave their homes in search of food, safety and opportunity. As climate extremes like droughts, hurricanes and flooding become more frequent and more severe, more people will have no choice but to leave their homes.
Extreme weather is expected to displace as many as 1 billion people by the year 2050.
UN WFP, June5, 2021
The landslide killed 28 people and destroyed hundreds of homes. Now 48 survivors are taking the government to court for failing to protect them. This is the first human rights claim concerning natural landslides and climate change.
But despite its tiny contribution to global warming, cyclones, landslides, droughts and floods are becoming more intense and frequent in this region. The western part of the Indian ocean is warming faster than any other part of the tropical ocean while temperatures are rising 1.5 times faster in the Sahel than the global average, said Abubakar Salih Babiker, a climate scientist at the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center (ICPAC).
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“Many communities in Africa are being affected by concurrent and consecutive crises, leaving them with little time to recover before the next shock arrives.”
Mohammed Mukhier, IFRC Regional Director for Africa
