The entire globe has been effected negatively by climate change over the past 10-20 years. Africa is no exception to this climate change, and given the large size of the continent its effects are seen in various fashions. For instance, the horn of Africa would only see a drought once a generation as the CNN article states, however this occurrence has changed frequency to every few years. Africa as we know from our readings, already struggles from its harsh climate in terms of agriculture, due to water being such a scarce source. The negative effects of El Nino are impacting Africa in a bad way. This is also bad because it raises the concern of food security, water security, the grown of urbanization, and the question of how to build Africa's emerging infrastructure.
Climate change is an issue that the globe needs to tackle as a whole. This could be yet another event in a long list of negative things that have occurred in Africa that have stagnated its growth as a continent.
Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/09/africa/africa-climate-change-cop21/
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