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Tackling Africa's climate change challenges

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Africa emits the least greenhouse gases, yet the continent is the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

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Reports & Analysis

Activists hold a giant banner reading "World Bank: End Fossil Finance" as well as placards with slogans such as "Dignity not debt" and "Make polluters pay" during a demonstration

Africa's inspiring climate activists

Africa's inspiring climate activists

As Africa is hit by climate change, activists fight back and stoke hopes that green goals can prevail against profits.
Nature and EnvironmentNovember 28, 20238 images
Benin | Desertification in Benin

Global conflicts overshadowing African desertification

Global conflicts overshadowing African desertification

Africans discussing desertification in Uzbekistan called for more funds to offset the effects of climate change.
ClimateNovember 21, 2023
Gray boxes with the location Ibadan, Nigeria sit on a shelf at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway

Norway's seed vault protecting Africa's food supply

Norway's seed vault protecting Africa's food supply

African scientists have preserved precious seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, deep in Norway's Arctic permafrost.
Food SecurityNovember 13, 2023
A woman in a refugee camp in the Cameroonian village of Bogo.

In Africa, climate change is igniting armed conflict

In Africa, climate change is igniting armed conflict

Fighting over water forced thousands to leave their homes in Cameroon in 2021. Many have not yet been able to return.
ConflictsOctober 28, 202303:32 min
A man sits in front of his destroyed house in Derna, head in his hands

Libya flood damage

Libya flood damage

Thousands are dead and missing after catastrophic flooding caused massive destruction in northern Libya.
CatastropheSeptember 14, 2023
A man walks through the debris, after a powerful storm and heavy rainfall hit Libya

Floods in Libya: Civil war compounds devastation

Floods in Libya: Civil war compounds devastation

Climate change is partly responsible for the floods that have devastated Libya, but the legacy of war has made it worse.
CatastropheSeptember 13, 2023
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In the spotlight

A boy paddles in front of a hut on the Ruki river in the DRC's Equateur province

DRC's dilemma: Generate oil wealth or combat climate change?

Kinshasa wants more money for climate projects, or oil drilling could start in the world's largest peat bog.
Nature and EnvironmentMarch 15, 2023
A man sits on an electric motorcycle on a bridge in Kenya

Africa boosts homegrown e-mobility in bid to curb emissions

Motorcycles with swap batteries, buses with solar panels: African innovators are making the shift to electric vehicles.
Cars and TransportationJanuary 30, 2023
A group of adults and children and a donkey cart

Somalia's food crisis claims young lives

Children are starving to death in Somalia where roughly half the population urgently needs food
Food SecurityNovember 22, 2022
A woman picks ripe cherries of coffee

Zambia: Female farmers adapt to climate change

Women farmers in Zambia are not giving up despite the impact of climate change as they adopt new ways to remain afloat.
Nature and EnvironmentNovember 11, 2022
A health worker squeezes an oral cholera vaccine into the open mouth of a boy

Africa sees surge in cholera amid vaccine shortage

Kenya reports new cholera cases as Africa sees a spike in infections, especially in flood-hit Nigeria and Cameroon.
HealthOctober 25, 2022
Three elderly men sit on the dusty ground in a village, against an orange-colored wall

Madagascar region faces food, water scarcity

The area's worst drought in decades has left residents of the Toliara region in dire need of food and water.
Food SecurityOctober 18, 202201:49 min