Four back-to-back typhoons pummelled the Philippines in 10 wild days of November. The storms followed 14 other typhoons to ...

At a workshop on disaster risk reduction monitoring and reporting framework for stakeholders in Nigeria, the Head of the National Emergency Management ... in the West Africa sub-region and Africa ...

Jarzabkowski thinks risk pools ... established in Africa, the Pacific, and, most recently, South East Asia. Since it is unlikely that several countries will be hit by a major disaster within ...

Specifically, the concept of “Sustainable Cities and Communities” of the World Bank’s Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land ... impacting millions of land holders in Africa, Asia, ...

Climate change poses a significant current and impending threat to Ethiopia’s development, further heightening existing socio-economic vulnerabilities.

Shiferaw Teklemariam, Commissioner of the Ethiopian Disaster Risk Management Commission, said it was too early to label the activity an eruption, but authorities were not taking chances.

Head of the Provincial Fire and Rescue Services team at the provincial Disaster Risk Management Centre ... plants are "the single biggest threat in terms of wildfires in South Africa". Preston said ...

The President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, who leads the African National Congress Party, has approved a law that will ...