"You can't predict what is coming, you know? Like you find when it's the season for rain, now sunshine comes in, when it's the season for sunshine, now rain comes in. So, you know, it's hard to predict," said Twongirwe, executive director of the nonprofit Women for Green Economy Movement Uganda. The unpredictability she describes is destroying crops and livelihoods, which leads to "all sorts of conflicts in communities and the country at large" due to price increases.
"The reality is that we hear about them when disaster hits them for a couple of days or weeks," Harjeet Singh, then head of global political strategy at Climate Action Network International, told DW. "But after that, we all forget about them. We don't provide them enough support to recover from these impacts to rebuild their homes and livelihoods."
Prolonged drought in East Africa from 2020 to 2023 was followed by heavy rainfall and severe flooding in 2024, which affected hundreds of thousands of people. Infrastructure was damaged, schools closed, and livestock and crops lost.
World Weather Attribution scientists, who investigate the link between extreme weather events and climate change, have said the heavy rain was made twice as likely and 5% more intense by hotter temperatures linked to the burning of fossil fuels.
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