Climate Change Can Destabilise African Countries - UN

The State of the Climate in Africa 2021 reveals that rainfall patterns are disrupted, glaciers are disappearing and key lakes are shrinking. Water stress and hazards like withering droughts and devastating floods are hitting African communities, economies and ecosystems hard, according to a new report launched by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

With a special focus on water, The State of the Climate report reveals that high water stress is estimated to affect about 250 million people on the continent and displace up to 700 million individuals by 2030. Four out of five African countries are unlikely to have sustainably managed water resources by 2030 the report says.

"The worsening crisis and looming famine in the drought-stricken Horn of Africa shows how climate change can exacerbate water shocks, threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and destabilising communities, countries and entire regions," said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.