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)
June 6, 2022
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Africa needs better weather warning systems, urge experts
Central and north African regions have been singled out by the U.N.'s weather agency as the worst affected by the absence of weather data