- Climate change will soon cause major droughts and uncertain rainfall in Africa's sub-tropical and tropical areas, said the vice chairman of the group of experts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Albdelkader Allali uttered the comments at an international conference on climate change in the Burkinabe capital Ouagadougou.
An earlier study conducted by German and African researchers found that Africa's rainy season has delayed by a month. The researchers who made a comparison to the continent's rain patterns 40 years said Africa will experience high temperatures as well as reduction of rainfall in its sub-Saharan regions.
Jointly organised by Burkina Faso, Morocco and Germany, the Ouagadougou conference sought to present results of over nine years climate change research and the impact of water sources in Africa.
A Ghanaian environmental protection agency director told a recent similar conference that between 75 and 250 million Africans are at the brink of facing serious water supply shortage by 2020.
William Kojo Agyemang-Bonsu also said "agriculture outputs in some countries could suffer a 50% decrease due to the effects of climate change," blaming human activities for causing climate change.
"The average world rate of the rise in sea level is between 1.8cm and 3.1cm per annum from 1961 to 1993," he said. "Forecasts indicate that the rise in the sea level will be between 18cm and 59cm in the end of the 21st century."
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