Climate change disrupts weather patterns, wreaking havoc in Africa

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The "extreme" weather and "intense" rainfall triggering deadly floods and displacing millions of people in West Africa this year are the "effects of climate change," says Senegalese climate expert Aida Diongue-Niang.

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00:00This is my house and water spoiled many of my property inside.

00:27I don't know how I'll take and recover all those many of my property. I don't know how I'll take

00:32and recover my own property. The most paramount of patient is farming and some of the crops now

00:39were I mean being submerged. No one can even harvest his crop any longer. So everybody live

00:47and run away from the community because of the speeding of the coming of the water. So we have

00:52to leave everything and go to uplands, upland area.

01:22We have had a lot of extreme events in Senegal and all over the Sahel, and this is one of the manifestations of climate change.

01:44As the global temperature rises, the extreme events will increase in frequency and intensity.

01:53To reduce the incidence of these extreme events, the only way is to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

02:01And this does not depend on the region, it depends on the whole humanity.

02:22you

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