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CORRECTS WEST TO EAST COAST - Vendors and fish mongers arrive on an incoming fishing boat at the Gazi Bay with their overnight catch in Kwale county, Kenya on Sunday, June 12, 2022. Countries on Africa's east coast are increasingly turning to climate funding initiatives to innovative financing models to close the large climate financing gaps currently existing in the continent to boost livelihoods of oceanside communities, aid biodiversity recovery responses and enhance take climate action. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

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Africa looks to private sector to fund ocean climate action
By WANJOHI KABUKURU - Associated Press
Wed,07/13/22-1:01AM , 66 Reads
MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Countries on Africa's east coast are increasingly turning to climate funding initiatives to boost livelihoods of oceanside communities, aid biodiversity and take climate action.
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Fishermen swim out from an incoming boat at a berth, some with their overnight catch in Kwale county, Gazi Bay, Kenya on Sunday, June 12, 2022. Artisanal fisheries on Kenya's coast say climate change, overfishing by large foreign vessels and a lack of other job opportunities for coastal communities is draining the Indian Ocean of its yellowfin tuna stocks. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

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Tuna catch dries up for Kenya's local fisherfolk
By WANJOHI KABUKURU - Associated Press
Wed,07/06/22-10:04PM , 48 Reads
VANGA, Kenya (AP) — “Tuna is not for everyone,” lamented 65-year-old Chapoka Miongo, a handline fisher on Kenya’s south coast, from his dugout canoe.
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Coral reef restoration ranger Yatin Patel measures an artificial reef structure in the Indian Ocean near Shimoni, Kenya on Monday, June 13, 2022. The marine area off the coast of Kenya at Wasini Island, jointly managed by a foundation and the island's community, has been planting over 8,000 corals a year since early 2010s and placed about 800 artificial reef structures in the channel in a bid to restore Wasini's coral gardens. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

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To combat coral bleaching, Kenya turns to reef nurseries
By WANJOHI KABUKURU - Associated Press
Sun,06/26/22-10:01PM , 70 Reads
WASINI, Kenya (AP) — Minutes away from the Kenyan mainland, the densely forested island of Wasini is one of several starting lines for coral reef restoration efforts in the western Indian Ocean.
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Young girls pull containers of water during a drought as they return to their huts from a well in the village of Lomoputh in northern Kenya on, May 12, 2022. Better climate-related research and early weather warning systems are needed as extreme weather — from cyclones to drought — continues to inflict the African continent, said the Sudanese billionaire and philanthropist Mo Ibrahim, who heads up his own foundation. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

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Africa needs better weather warning systems, urge experts
By WANJOHI KABUKURU - Associated Press
Mon,06/06/22-8:54AM , 98 Reads
MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Better climate-related research and early warning systems are needed as extreme weather — from cyclones to drought — continues to inflict the African continent, said Sudanese billionaire and philanthropist Mo Ibrahim, who heads up his own foundation.
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