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Africa’s Disaster Resilience Is Focus of New African Risk Capacity Partnership

The African Risk Capacity (ARC) has teamed up with the African Development Bank (AfDB) to help African nations strengthen their resilience to weather-related risks. The ARC and the AfDB will work together to develop their member states’ understanding of the …

Africa Launches First Catastrophe Risk Insurance Pool

In the 1980s images of skeletal Ethiopian babies and their parents, dying from hunger during a devastating famine, helped galvanize global humanitarian and financial aid to drought-ravaged African countries. Three decades and countless droughts later and the relief model Africa …