Call for Proactive Risk Management in Response to El Niño

TLDR

• African leaders hope the coming months will mark a shift from reactive disaster response to proactive risk management, ensuring that early warnings lead to early action and save lives across the continent.
• The warning was issued during the Ministerial Consultative Meeting on El Niño Preparedness and Continental Response, where leaders from the African Union Commission (AUC) said the phenomenon could trigger severe.