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Sunayana Sen, Daraja program manager at Resurgence, speaks to Meteorological Technology International about Africa’s most inclusive – and award-winning – urban weather forecasting and early warning system.
Resurgence
Flooding, Bentiu, South Sudan
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Displacement, extreme heat, and conflict impacting millions of children in Sudan.
United Nations Children's Fund (Global Headquarters, New York)
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In this podcast series, broadcaster Bola Mosuro talks to researchers, aid workers and herders about some of the new crises facing the drylands and the dynamic ways in which people are responding to meet them.
Overseas Development Institute
International Livestock Research Institute
Mercy Corps
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The study aligns with the World Bank’s growing focus on One Health approach to preparing for and addressing zoonotic and emerging infectious diseases.
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The concurrence of environmental degradation, worsening climatic change, and widespread violence has underpinned a multitude of claims, mostly in public policy circles and by journalists, that these conflicts are the world’s first “climate wars.”
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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This study evaluates the effectiveness of flood disaster risk preparedness and anticipatory action in mitigating flooding risks in flood-prone communities within the Blue Nile region of Sudan.
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The main objective of this research was to assist policymakers in establishing a mechanism for public participation in Sudan to enable communities to be engaged in improving flood risk management.
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This seismic risk profile of Sudan, produced by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation summarizes key metrics of seismic risk, allowing stakeholders in risk management to get an overview of the risk in the country.

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