Directors of National Meteorological Services from Southern African Development Community (SADC) gathered in Maseru on Wednesday for the Meteorological Association of Southern Africa (MASA) meeting.

MASA is a coordinating agency based in South Africa, it is mandated to coordinate meteorological and climate change issues in the region.

The meeting, which has been organised by Lesotho Meteorological Services (LMS) aims to bring together directors to share experiences and challenges with regard to meteorological and climate change issues and how they can overcome such challenges.

Speaking in an interview with LENA, the Director of LMS, Mr. Ts'eliso Sekoli, said the three day meeting, which started on Monday, is also intended to strengthen relations between National Directors of Meteorological Services in the region.

“We can not do our work effectively as climate experts without collaborating because we have to know climate changes that occur in other countries to be able to predict the whether,” he said.

Mr. Ts'eliso said, during the meeting, participants will also finalise the MASA constitution, which was developed during a similar meeting in Pretoria, South Africa last year.

Attendants are Directors from Lesotho, South Africa, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Swaziland, Mozambique and Namibia respectively.

Source: LENA 10/10/2007