Africa: Climate change to hit Africa hardest

Urgent action must be taken in order to prevent Africa from bearing the brunt of global warming, a scientific conference on climate change was told. If current trends continued, temperatures in sub-Saharan Africa could rise by 2C with rainfall declining by 10%, according to Anthony Nyong, a scientist at Jos university in Nigeria. "There must be substantial and genuine reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by the principal emitters," Dr Nyong wrote in a paper presented to the conference, taking place in Exeter.