Visitors gather at Ghana's Cape Copast Castle, outside the "Door of No Return", through which enslaved Africans were loaded as cargo onto the ships that took them across the Atlantic to the Americas. Photo: AFP
From the snow-capped peak of Mount Kilimanjaro to the ruins of the ancient Tunisian city of Carthage and Senegal's slave island of Goree, Africa has a wealth of iconic cultural and natural heritage sites.
But climate change impacts, from higher temperatures to worsening floods, now threaten to condemn these and dozens more African landmarks to the history books.
