The worsening climate crisis is causing a broad range of ill effects on countries in Africa. The report by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) – the product of international collaboration across the continent – provides a snapshot of climate crisis impacts, including sea level rise and the melting of what it described as “the continent’s iconic glaciers”, such as those on Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya. In his foreword to the report, WMO secretary-general Professor Petteri Taalas said: “During 2020, the climate indicators in Africa were characterised by continued warming temperatures, accelerating sea-level rise, extreme weather and climate events, such as floods, landslides and droughts, and associated devastating impacts.
By Harry Cockburn. Independent. October 19, 2021.
