Drought-hit Tanzania’s Villages Confront Harshest Reality of Climate Change By Kizito Makoye Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.

Farmers in Tanzania’s drought-hit Dodoma region offer a potent message for negotiators heading to COP30 in Brazil: climate justice is not an abstract slogan. It is a water trough filled close to home, a tree shading a schoolyard, and a beehive buzzing with possibility. https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/10/drought-hit-tanzanias-villages-confront-harshest-reality-of-climate-change/?utm_source=email_marketing&utm_admin=146128&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Climate_Finance_Will_Be_the_First_Casualty_of_Rising_Militarism_Nuclear_Testing_Threats_are_Returnin DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Oct 1 2025 (IPS) - The dust was already swirling when Asherly William Hogo lifted himself from a makeshift bed before dawn. The 62-year-old pastoralist, lean from a lifetime of walking these plains, slipped into his sandals and stepped outside. Stars glittered over Dodoma, but the air was warmer than it used to be, Hogo swears. He whistled for his cows. Years ago, this hour meant an arduous trek to distant waterholes. Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.