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People walk on a road swept by flooding waters in Chikwawa, Malawi, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. Mozambique, Madagascar and Malawi are counting the deaths and damage by tropical storm Ana and more than a week of heavy rains across southern Africa. Much of the world takes daily weather forecasts for granted. But most of Africa's 1.3 billion people live with little advance knowledge of what's to come. That can be deadly, with damage running in the billions of dollars. The first Africa Climate Summit opens this week in Kenya to highlight the continent that will suffer the most from climate change while contributing to it the least. At the heart of every issue on the agenda, from energy to agriculture, is the lack of data collection that drives decisions as basic as when to plant and when to flee. (AP Photo, File)

The first Africa Climate Summit opens as hard-hit continent of 1.3B demands more say and financing

By Cara Anna and Evelyne Musambi - Associated Press

A Kenyan uses charcoal to heat water to take bath as there was no electricity Saturday, Aug. 26 2023. Much of Kenya remains without electricity Saturday morning after an unexplained power outage Friday night shut down the country's main international airport and led to a rare public apology by a government minister.(AP Photo/Abdul Azim Sayyid)

Power outages across Kenya approach the 12-hour mark with little explanation and a rare apology

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

Vendor Francis Ndege measures rice at his stall at the Toi Market in Nairobi, Kenya, on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. Countries worldwide are scrambling to secure rice after a partial ban on exports by India cut global supplies by roughly a fifth. Now, Ndege isn’t sure if his customers in Africa’s largest slum can afford to keep buying rice from him. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Global food security is at crossroads as rice shortages and surging prices hit the most vulnerable

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A protester burns tyres to block the road in the Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Anti-government protesters are demonstrating in a number of Kenyan cities against newly imposed taxes and the cost of living. (AP Photo/Samson Otieno)

Police say officers kill at least 6 as Kenyans protest rising costs, and 50 children are tear-gassed

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

People celebrate Morocco's win over Spain in a World Cup match played in Qatar, in Rabat, Morocco, Tuesday, 6, Dec., 2022. For many, Morocco’s underdog performance is the best story in the World Cup so far, with the hopes of the African continent soaring ahead of the match on Saturday against Portugal. Across the continent of more than 1 billion people, African fans are excited that Morocco has become the fourth team from an African country to ever qualify for the World Cup quarterfinals, and the first in a dozen years. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

‘Our pride’: Morocco keeps Africa’s hope alive in World Cup

By Evelyne Musambi and Deng Machol - Associated Press

Personnel from the Kenya Defence Forces disaster response unit examine the scene of a building collapse in the Kasarani neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. Workers at the multi-storey residential building that was under construction are feared trapped in the rubble and rescue operations have begun, but there was no immediate official word on any casualties. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Building under construction collapses in Kenya’s capital

By Evelyne Musambi - Associated Press

An election official holds up ballots for other officials and party agents to see, as they start to count votes at a polling station in Olepolos Primary School, in Kajiado County, Kenya Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Polls opened Tuesday in Kenya's unusual presidential election, where a longtime opposition leader who is backed by the outgoing president faces the deputy president who styles himself as the outsider. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Anxiety rises over claims in Kenya’s close presidential vote

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

Jonathan Mpute ole Pasha, national coordinator of the Maa Unity Agenda group, is surrounded by tear gas thrown by police to break up a small demonstration of Maasai rights activists outside the Tanzanian high commission in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Friday, June 17, 2022. Tanzania's government is accused of violently trying to evict Maasai herders from one of the country's most popular tourist destinations, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Tanzania’s Masaai demand Indigenous rights in UN framework

By Wanjohi Kabukuru - Associated Press

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is seen through a glass partition as he attends a meeting with Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ambassador Raychelle Omamo at the Serena Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. Blinken is on a five-day trip to Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Blinken, in Kenya, seeks to cool regional crises

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Hundreds of thousands of Somalis at the Dadaab camp entered a voluntary repatriation program in 2017 and 2018, but some born and raised there know no other home. (Associated Press)

Kenya move to shutter refugee camps puts Somalis at risk

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times

Demonstrators run from teargas fired by police at a protest against alleged corruption, including the theft of supplies for the fight against the coronavirus, at Uhuru Park in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. Kenya's police teargassed and arrested some of the protesters who were holding a peaceful demonstration following the announcement that the country's anti-corruption agency is investigating the theft of millions of dollars of supplies from the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority. (AP Photo)

Kenyan police teargas anti-corruption protesters in Nairobi

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Traditional birth attendant Emily Owino, left, prepares to help Veronica Atieno, right, deliver her baby in Emily's one-room house during a dusk-to-dawn curfew, late at night in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, May 28, 2020. Kenya already had one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world, and though data are not yet available on the effects of the curfew aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus, experts believe the number of women and babies who die in childbirth has increased significantly since it was imposed mid-March. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Pregnant women at risk of death in Kenya’s COVID-19 curfew

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

In this photo taken Thursday, June 11, 2020, Martin Okello looks out of the window in the house he shares with other Ugandan LGBT refugees in Nairobi, Kenya. He and other members of the LGBT community in East Africa face discrimination that has forced many to flee their home countries for Kenya, which has become a haven for them. It is the only East African nation where someone can seek asylum and be registered as a refugee based on their LGBT status. Yet even in Kenya, they can be encounter discrimination and violence, and the country still criminalizes gay sex. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

LGBT refugees find a haven in Kenya despite persecution

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

An officer checks the temperature of Wannapa Kotabin, a 38-year-old kitchen assistant at an Italian restaurant, in front of Social Security office for claim unemployment benefit in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, June 4, 2020. The government ordered all restaurants closed in March to combat the spread of the coronavirus, and Wannapa hasn't worked since. That's the harsh truth facing workers laid off around the world, from software companies in Israel to restaurants in Thailand and car factories in France, whose livelihoods fell victim to a virus-driven recession that's accelerating decline in struggling industries and upheaval across the global workforce. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Despite global reopening push, some jobs are gone for good

By ANGELA CHARLTON and TASSANEE VEJPONGSA - Associated Press

In this April 10, 2020, photo, Judith Andeka a widow and mother of five, fetches water with a bucket in the Kibera slum, or informal settlement, of Nairobi, Kenya. Andeka used to earn $2.50 to $4 a day washing clothes in Nairobi’s Kibera, one of the world’s biggest slums. With people not going to work because of restrictions on movement, neighbors can’t afford her services. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Meet 8 people around the world hustling to survive pandemic

By AYA BATRAWY and EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

A police officer holds a pistol during clashes with protesters near a burning tyre barricade in the Kariobangi slum of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, May 8, 2020. Hundreds of protesters blocked one of the capital's major highways with burning tires to protest government demolitions of the homes of more than 7,000 people and the closure of a major food market, causing many to sleep out in the rain and cold because of restrictions on movement due to the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Kenyans protest house demolitions amid virus restrictions

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

In this March 24, 2020, file photo, a street trader sells cabbages by the side of the road, after the government ordered the closure of the main open-air market, in the Mathare slum, or informal settlement, of Nairobi, Kenya. Lockdowns in Africa limiting the movement of people in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus are threatening to choke off supplies of what the continent needs the most: Food. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

Coronavirus crisis choking off supply of what Africa needs most: Food

By Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press

Women queue for a planned distribution of food for those suffering under Kenya's coronavirus-related movement restrictions, before the crowd pushed through a gate and created a stampede, causing police to fire tear gas and leaving several injured, at a district office in the Kibera slum, or informal settlement, of Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, April 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Stampede in Kenya as slum residents surge for food aid

By TOM ODULA and IDI ALI JUMA - Associated Press

In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, Ruth Kageche, whose brother Rev. George Mukua Kageche, a priest based in Italy, perished on the ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 in 2019, holds a portrait him during an interview with The Associated Press in Nairobi, Kenya. The year since the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max has been a journey through grief, anger and determination for the families of those who died, as well as having far-reaching consequences for the aeronautics industry as it brought about the grounding of all Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 jets, which remain out of service. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

Grief, controversy mark anniversary of Ethiopian plane crash

By ELIAS MESERET and DAVID KOENIG and GEOFFREY KAVITI - Associated Press

In this photo taken Aug. 26, 2019 and released by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Devin Boyer, 435th Air Expeditionary Wing photojournalist, salutes the flag during a ceremony signifying the change from tactical to enduring operations at Camp Simba, Manda Bay, Kenya. The al-Shabab extremist group said Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020 that it has attacked the Camp Simba military base used by U.S. and Kenyan troops in coastal Kenya, while Kenya's military says the attempted pre-dawn breach was repulsed and at least four attackers were killed. (Staff Sgt. Lexie West/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Al-Shabab attacks Camp Simba, U.S. military base in Kenya

By Abdi Guled, Tom Odula and Carl Anna - Associated Press