Experts call for action to avoid disasters after hottest year

Houses marooned by floods in Kapuothe village, Kisumu. The record-breaking temperatures in 2024 fueled unrelenting heatwaves, drought, wildfire, storms and floods. [File, Standard]

The year 2024 was hottest on record, according to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).

In a report scheduled to be officially released later in the month, detailing the global temperature figures for the past year, last year's temperatures surpassed 2023 and 2016, which previously held records.