Climate change is having a compounding impact on Africa, while straining the continent's economic growth. In my two decades of residency in Cairo, Egypt, I've never witnessed a winter as warm as this year's. Last year was also the hottest year Egypt ever recorded, with sweltering summer heat temperatures of above 30 degrees Celsius in October and November.
If climate change is damaging nature in wealthy nations, it is also posing a threat to the lives of millions of Africans—a continent which is slowly plunging into a climate nightmare. The effects of climate change on health are, however, heavier on Africans, simply because many of whom lack the resources, emergency preparedness, and subtle initiatives to tackle them.
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