Developing countries may not achieve their Millennium Development Goals targets by 2015 unless they address climate change concerns, experts have warned.

Important progress has been made during the latest round of United Nations-led climate change talks in Accra, Ghana, on key issues relating to a new international agreement to tackle global warming, the world body's top official dealing with the issue said today.

The World Bank yesterday in Accra said that a total of 170 billion dollars (N20 trillion) was required between now and 2030 to enable developing countries mitigate and adapt to the impact of climate change.

First in a new series of discussion papers from the Commonwealth Secretariat examines ways to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation

Thousands of Turkana nomads from Kenya have amassed at the border of Kenya and Uganda, UPDF 3rd Division Training and Operations Officer Paul L'Okech has said.

Barely two days after the government warned that several parts of the country would experience heavy rains, parts of Teso region have already been affected.

Flash floods following torrential rains in Ethiopia's Gambella regional state have spread to four woredas [districts] and displaced thousands more people, an official in the area said.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has expressed concern over rising flood waters across West Africa, which was described as capable of intensifying health risks for millions of people, and adding to the impact of the food price crisis.

The United Nations relief chief will travel to Ethiopia next week to assess the situation in the Horn of Africa country first-hand, where millions of people need humanitarian aid because of a devastating drought and the soaring prices of many basic foods.

It is apt that a key world meeting on climate change and food security attended by 150 legislators from 15 countries in Africa and Europe as well as Japan should be held in Kenya.

Fuel subsidies should be scrapped, if the fight against the increase in greenhouse emissions is to be won, the United Nations has said.

SOUTH Africans are above the world average when it comes to concerns about climate change, according to a survey of 22 cities on six continents conducted by BBC World News.

THE Delta State House of Assembly has passed a resolution calling on Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan to direct local government councils in the state to open up blocked drainages in their areas to check the menace of flooding which had been wreaking havoc.

The United Nations climate talks ending today and focused on 'Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries' risk moving towards 'carbon colonialism', Friends of the Earth International campaigners warned.

The storm water system around the Sam Nujoma Stadium in Katutura is to be upgraded to avoid floods similar to 2006 where households in Dolam were made homeless.

Several parts of the country face flooding caused by heavy rains that are expected within the next two months, government announced yesterday.

Climate change is not the most pressing issue facing mankind today.

A conference on climate change has started in Nairobi with calls on African countries to stop relying on development aid.

THE country will experience strong, severe winds and storms in the coming months. Experts say the storms will hit western and central Uganda plus parts of Kampala.

Swathes of West Africa's coastline extending from the orange dunes in Mauritania to the dense tropical forests in Cameroon will be underwater by the end of the century as a direct consequence of climate change, environmental experts warn.

One Munyentwari lost all his crops this year. He was the lucky one. His neighbor, one Dansila, lost all her crops and the house that she and her four children had called home for 10 years. She too was among the lucky ones.

Once again, another round of talks has brought the world together in Accra. This time, the 'developed world' is not being asked to fulfill hovering promises of handouts to poor, needy countries, but to show more commitment in the fight against a bane they mainly helped in bringing about - climate change.

United Nations officials are working alongside local authorities in southern Chad to provide humanitarian assistance after flooding in and around the town of Sarh has left more than 10,000 people homeless.

Thousands of families in western Mozambican province of Tete, who were displaced by floods on the Zambezi river in January, may still be without shelter during the next rainy season, which begins in October.

In an effort to stay competitive in a global market where increasing demands are made by consumers for 'green' products, South African fruit and wine farmers have launched an initiative to determine the environmental impact of their industries. The research could challenge the idea that exported products from the developing world have a higher environmental cost.