Climate change will displace, impoverish even more Africans
Herders drive animals to a water source in Sudan. Almost half of the population in sub-Saharan Africa live below the poverty line and depend on weather-sensitive activities, such as herding. PHOTO | SHUTTERSTOCK
Rapidly shrinking glaciers, extreme weather and increased climate events including floods and droughts, are among the foreboding events of a rapidly warming region that could soon find itself thrust out of the frying pan into the fire, on more fronts than one.
A new report — The State of the Climate in Africa 2020 — paints a grim picture of what the environmental changes could do to the continent within the next decades.
