{"id":4663,"date":"2026-06-15T21:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2026-06-15T21:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:06:19","slug":"government-stakeholders-prep-for-looming-el-nino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=4663","title":{"rendered":"GOVERNMENT, STAKEHOLDERS PREP FOR LOOMING EL NINO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government has called for stronger climate preparedness and coordinated action across Africa as the continent faces growing threats from extreme weather events and the possible return of El Ni\u00f1o conditions in 2026\/2027.<\/p>\n<p>Ministry of Green Economy and Environment Permanent Secretary Douty Chibamba says Africa continues to experience increasing climate-related disasters, including droughts, floods, heatwaves, tropical cyclones and other extreme weather events that are affecting food security, water resources, energy systems and livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Chibamba made the remarks in a speech delivered for him by the Ministry&#8217;s Human Resource and Administration Director, Ranford Simumbwe during the official opening of the Twenty-First Africa Continental Climate Outlook Forum (ACCOF-21) in Lusaka,<\/p>\n<p>African Union Commission, Sustainable Environment and Blue Economy Director Hazen Nyambe called for the enhanced implementation of climate Change frameworks as the continent anticipates the forthcoming EL NINO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government has called for stronger climate preparedness and coordinated action across Africa as the continent faces growing threats from extreme weather events and the possible return of El Ni\u00f1o conditions in 2026\/2027. Ministry of Green Economy and Environment Permanent Secretary Douty Chibamba says Africa continues to experience increasing climate-related disasters, including droughts, floods, heatwaves, tropical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,28],"tags":[26,25],"class_list":["post-4663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latestnewsleft","category-environment","tag-ineverycornerofzambia","tag-zanis","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4665,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions\/4665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}