Addis Ababa — Early warning should be taken as a necessity not a luxury, World Meteorological Organization Regional Office for Africa Program Manager Ernest Afiesimama said today. Speaking at the workshop, Afiesimama added that early warning faces three challenges, which are availability of information, accessibility and affordability. High emphasis is therefore given to early warning system and its decentralization where capacitated people at local will be in place to lead the system. "For this, we are building disaster risk management system for resilience building and disaster risk prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery areas of intervention," he elaborated. The national consultation workshop that opened today is coordinated by the Ethiopian Meteorological Institute and the Ethiopian Disaster Risk Management Commission, and co-organized with UN Ethiopia, in partnership with World Meteorological Organization, international organizations and NGOs.

Source: Ethiopian News July 18, 2024 13:56 UTC