Pedestrians cross the flooded Morogoro Road in Dar es Salaam after a flood. AFP PHOTO | DANIEL HAYDUK
The World Health Organisation is warning that climate change is already causing tens of thousands of deaths every year — from shifting patterns of disease to extreme weather events, such as heat-waves and floods and from the degradation of air quality food and water supplies, and sanitation.
According to a study by WHO’s Special Programme on Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, in Tanzania, poor communities that rely on crops and livestock are seeing their livelihoods and food security wrecked by unexpected weather patterns, such as increasing temperatures, late rainfall onset and droughts.
