Climate change is one of the most important global environmental problems facing the world today. Africa has experienced the fastest rate of increase in the incidence of natural disasters over the last three decades whereby floods and droughts were the most prevalent and impactful type of disasters on the continent. From 2000-2019, floods were responsible for 64% of disaster events, followed by storms at 15%. Between 2000-2019, total disaster events recorded for Africa stood at 1143, which attributed to 46,078 deaths and a total of 337 million people affected living in disaster-prone countries. In 2019, at least 33 million people in Africa were at emergency levels of food insecurity or worse. Whereby children bear 90% of the burden of disease attributable to climate change, such as malaria and dengue fever.
