Africa ‘on front line of climate change’

Attempts to alleviate poverty in Africa will fail unless urgent action is taken to stall dangerous climate change, the Group of Eight nations will be told today.

A report, entitled Africa: Up in Smoke?, from a group of aid and environmental non-governmental organisations in the UK, says that because Africa “lives on the front line of global warming”, efforts to solve the problem of poverty in isolation will be undermined by the ill effects of climate change