Tanzania: Mt. Kilimanjaro Declining Snow Worries The President

Arusha — Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete has decried the country's changing weather patterns that have resulted into among others the declining snow at Mt. Kilimanjaro.

He said in many parts of Tanzania, temperature has increased by about 0.2 to 0.6 degree centigrade for the past 30 years whose impact is evidenced by the fast decline of snow on Mount Kilimanjaro and the advent of malaria in high altitude temperate regions that were formerly malarias free.

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