Climate change poses growing threats to vulnerable Africa, UN says

FILE PHOTO: A farmer picks locusts from his sorghum farm in Jawaha village near Kamise town Amhara region, Ethiopia October 15, 2020. Picture taken October 15, 2020. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Floods, droughts, hotter weather and a desert locust invasion — the impacts of climate change are hitting Africa hard, and worse is ahead for the region’s food supplies, economy and health, the U.N. climate agency said on Monday.

Temperatures have been rising on the continent of 1.2 billion at a comparable rate to other regions, but Africa is exceptionally vulnerable to the shock, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).