The country’s disaster management system lacks hyperlocal environment data and is mostly reactive instead of proactive.

For brother and sister Onayi and Tatenda, the death of their parents in March 2019 at a time when they were still young could not have come at a worse time. Onayi, now a second-year Pharmaceutical ...

Madagascar 's disaster management office confirmed at least 59 deaths last week from Cyclone Gezani, the second tropical ...

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Photo courtesy of The National News In late 2025, as economic anxieties deepened and global climate warnings grew louder, a ...

Following the devastating cyclone that struck Madagascar’s east coast, Mercy Ships ( www.MercyShips.org) has joined with national disaster response efforts in Toamasina (Tamatave) through the ...

As the insurance industry reaches the one-year mark since ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred, insurers and peak bodies are using the anniversary to restate concerns about climate-related losses, resilience ...

The Vanuatu National Disaster Management Office has given the 'all clear' to TAFEA Province as Tropical Cyclone Urmil moves ...

Yellow and muddied water covered the rice paddies, fields and villages. The enchanting tea hills have vanished, swept away by mudslides. Sri Lanka, often called the pearl of the Indian Ocean, was ...

A cyclone packing violent winds has killed at least 31 people in Madagascar's second-largest city, ripping roofs off buildings, causing flooding and felling trees, the Indian Ocean island's disaster ...