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  2. Climate change in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Climate change in Africa is an increasingly serious threat as Africa is among the most vulnerable continents to the effects of climate change. [1][2][3] Some sources even classify Africa as "the most vulnerable continent on Earth". [4][5] Climate change and climate variability will likely reduce agricultural production, food security and water ...

  3. Environmental issues in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Issues include deforestation, soil degradation, air pollution, water pollution, coastal erosion, garbage pollution, climate change, Oil spills, Biodiversity loss, and water scarcity (resulting in problems with access to safe water supply and sanitation). [1] These issues result in environmental conflict and are connected to broader social ...

  4. Slavery in contemporary Africa - Wikipedia

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    The continent of Africa is one of the regions most rife with contemporary slavery. [1] Slavery in Africa has a long history, within Africa since before historical records, but intensifying with the trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean slave trade [2][3] and again with the trans-Atlantic slave trade; [4] the demand for slaves created an entire series ...

  5. COVID-19 pandemic in Africa - Wikipedia

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    In early June 2021, Africa faced a third wave of COVID infections with cases rising in 14 countries. [9] By 4 July the continent recorded more than 251,000 new Covid cases, a 20% increase from the prior week and a 12% increase from the January peak. More than sixteen African countries, including Malawi and Senegal, recorded an uptick in new ...

  6. HIV/AIDS in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Southern Africa is the worst affected region on the continent. As of 2011, HIV has infected at least 10 percent of the population in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. In response, a number of initiatives have been launched in various parts of the continent to educate the public on HIV ...

  7. Racism in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Racism in Africa. Racism in Africa has been a recurring part of the history of Africa. Ethnic pygmy populations in Central Africa suffer from racialized discrimination from Bantu peoples. [1] Pygmies and Bantus differ physically and genetically due to long lasting evolutionary segregation until the Bantu expansion brought them back into close ...

  8. Human rights in Africa - Wikipedia

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    The African Charter is a human rights document made up of 68 articles carved up into four sections—Human and Peoples' Rights; Duties; Procedure of the Commission; and Applicable Principles. It merges the three clusters of rights, namely, civil and political rights, economic, social, and cultural rights, and group and peoples' rights.

  9. Poverty in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Poverty in Africa is the lack of provision to satisfy the basic human needs of certain people in Africa. African nations typically fall toward the bottom of any list measuring small size economic activity, such as income per capita or GDP per capita, despite a wealth of natural resources. In 2009, 22 of 24 nations identified as having "Low ...