Africa risks losing coastal heritage sites to erosion and rising oceans

Sea wall

Contractors build a sea wall at the Vasco Da Gama Pillar in Malindi, Kenya, to protect the pillar from collapsing. PHOTO | FILE 

Africa’s natural and cultural coastal heritage sites could be lost due to climate change, experts warn.

The sites, many of which have been assigned Outstanding Universal Value by Unesco, are at risk from mass flooding and erosion of coastlines.