Women from Kenya’s pastoral Turkana community wait under a makeshift shed with their children at a drought-intervention community outreach clinic organised by Unicef at Nadoto village on October 18, 2022. PHOTO | AFP
As regional climates undergo significant changes, and both droughts and floods become bigger problems prompting individuals to seek safer havens, more Africans are moving from one climate risky place to another, says a new study.
According to the research titled “Drought and human mobility in Africa” published in Earth’s Future on December 21, 2023, in 80 percent of African countries, populations moved toward rivers and into urban areas during or following drought, increasing the number of people living in flood-risk areas in recent decades.
