{"id":1809,"date":"2025-09-16T05:27:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2026-09-16T05:27:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:27:40","slug":"climate-change-intensifies-many-existing-challenges-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/climate-change-intensifies-many-existing-challenges-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change intensifies many existing challenges in Africa."},"content":{"rendered":"
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), millions of people were affected by floods in West and Central Africa in 2024.<\/h5>\n
The UN agency reports that a total of 7.5 million people were affected by flooding across eighteen countries in West and Central Africa in 2024. Chad was the hardest hit, with 1.9 million affected people, followed by Niger (1.5 million), Nigeria (1.3 million), and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1.2 million). Cameroon, Mali, Guinea, and the Republic of Congo had a combined total of over 1.1 million affected people.<\/h5>\n

This impact is felt in the areas of health, economy, society, politics, national security, and stability. <\/strong><\/h3>\n

This is to say that for Africa, discussions about climate change and strategies to combat it have existential dimensions that can\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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sometimes be far more serious than is the case anywhere else.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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A 2024 report of the United Nations on the state of the environment in Africa emphasizes that Africa is warming faster than the global average. The consequences can be seen in a lot of factors, including land degradation due to overgrazing, water scarcity, air pollution, and various forms of human health impairments.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Climate change intensifies many existing challenges in Africa. Refugee crises and extreme poverty rates are chief among them. Displacement due to environmental change has been on the rise across the continent. Africa\u2019s urban poor are more likely to live in high-risk zones and are less able to move in the event of natural disaster. In Nigeria, for example, \u201ca sea level rise of one meter could displace 6.3 million people in Lagos alone and change the spatial distribution and density of both formal and informal settlements.\u201d<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), millions of people were affected by floods in West and Central Africa in 2024. The UN agency reports that a total of 7.5 million people were affected by flooding across eighteen countries in West and Central Africa in 2024. Chad was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}