Africa Is Being Pushed Closer to the Fire: Africans Say Continent Can’t Wait for Climate Action WATCH VIDEO Interview: democracynow.org/2013/11/22/africa_is_being_pushed_closer_to We in Africa are greatly impacted by climate change. We have seen rivers drying up, persistent droughts. We have seen floods, erratic rainfall. Snows which appeared in our mountains during my lifetime, I’ve seen them disappearing. So these are things which I’m seeing there. So, the issue of climate change is actually not to be—to be told by somebody. We are experiencing that. And that’s why we have come here even, to offer testimony to the industrialized countries and the global community that it is indeed not a fiction. It is something which is happening. MITHIKA MWENDA PHOTO/ BACKGROUND: developmentdiaries/insights-for-cop19-climate-change-and-africa/
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