Climate change poses growing threats to vulnerable Africa, UN says

FILE PHOTO: A farmer picks locusts from his sorghum farm in Jawaha village near Kamise town Amhara region, Ethiopia October 15, 2020. Picture taken October 15, 2020. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/File PhotoNAIROBI: Floods, droughts, hotter weather and a desert locust invasion — the impacts of climate change are hitting Africa hard, and worse is ahead for the region’s food supplies, economy and health, the UN climate agency said on Monday .

“By the middle of this century, major cereal crops grown across Africa will be adversely impacted,” the WMO said in a report. Natural disasters such as Cyclones Idai and Kenneth, which struck three countries in southern Africa in 2019, underscored the region’s exposure, it said. Meanwhile, in drought-prone areas including West Africa’s Sahel, the number of undernourished people has jumped by 45 per cent since 2012, the organisation said. Climate change is compounding problems such as conflict to drive growing hunger.In the Horn of Africa, below-average rainfall in 2018 and 2019 led to the worst cereal harvest in Somalia since records began in 1995 and to crop failures in neighbouring Kenya.

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