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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>South Sudan plans to set up meteorology centres to minimize the continued climate change.<\/p>\n The Ministry of Environment and Forestry said the meteorology centres will provide necessary information regarding climate change and its effects on the people.<\/p>\n Addressing the media during the ceremony for signing $10 million contract for setting up the South Sudan National Early Warning System, Joseph Africano, Undersecretary in the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, said South Sudan will soon set up weather forecast centres.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are trying to establish some meteorological (mete) centres like in schools where people can now collect data,\u201d Africano said.<\/p>\n He added that the country has been missing such important centres meant to provide the people with necessary information regarding climate that can help farmers and other citizens\u2019 plan ahead.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you see on the map, we do not have those meteorological centers here in the country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n However, Africano lamented the available meteorological equipment in the country has been redundant, and most of it has not been installed to perform its duties of informing the citizens.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have some equipment here; there were like 14 pieces of hydro mete equipment that came to the country a long time ago, but because of the conflict, only four were installed, and we still have 10 in the stores of the Ministry of Water Resources,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Meteorological centres are providing weather forecasting, climate prediction, climate change study, information collection, and dissemination centres.<\/p>\n The meteorological centers would be responsible for the distribution of information, advisories, and warnings regarding weather changes and their effects on the country.<\/p>\n Source: The City Review South Sudan<\/b><\/p>\n For More News And Analysis About South-Sudan<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yiep Joseph Africa-Press – South-Sudan. South Sudan plans to set up meteorology centres to minimize the continued climate change. The Ministry of Environment and Forestry said the meteorology centres will provide necessary information regarding climate change and its effects on the people. Addressing the media during the ceremony for signing $10 million contract for setting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":42012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[234,265,4285,4284,233],"class_list":["post-42013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-joseph-africano","tag-meteorological-centres","tag-south-sudan"],"yoast_head":"\n