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The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has released a documentary on the impact of climate change on frontline communities in Africa.
Titled “Climate Change: Africa’s Cooked and Sinking Communities,’’ the documentary highlighted the threatening impacts of climate change in Taita Taveta County, Kenya, Kambele, Cameroun and Ayetoro, Ondo State, Nigeria.
The documentary, which was showcased on Tuesday in Dubai at the climate change conference known as COP28, exposes the impact of mining and oil extraction in those communities; thereby, reinforcing the call for a Loss and Damage mechanism that will address the plight of local communities across Africa.
In the context of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) process, loss and damage fund is for compensation for harm caused to human societies and the natural environment by human-generated climate change.
In Kenya’s Taita Taveta County, the documentary shows the moving story of drought in a community once known for agriculture and animal husbandry.
The hitherto agrarian community has been transformed by climate change into arid terrain where farmers are compelled to adapt by becoming emergency miners, further exacerbating climate-related challenges.
Gideon Ndambuki, a resident in Taveta, said “This land which you are seeing here was used for farming for all of our lives.
“But things have changed; we used to plant cassava here; we used to plant sweet potatoes here; we used to plant green grams here.
“For the last three years, we haven’t gotten anything from this land; we have been waiting for rain for all this time and it has not rained.
“So, this land now is no longer productive; this land is no longer suitable for agriculture due to changes in the climate.”
In Kambele, residents, observably, battle landslides, incredible heat, and irregular weather patterns as a result of indiscriminate gold mining.
Close to 150 persons have reportedly died from landslides and open pits dug by gold miners, besides the varying degrees of health problems residents battle daily.
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