According to a recent report by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, coastal communities will experience more frequent “once in a hundred years” floods as a result of increasing sea levels caused by climate change. Academics worry that rising sea levels will stymie development and have an influence on both the continent and the rest of the world as a stretch of the coast of West Africa is poised to become the greatest megalopolis and an economic powerhouse. From Ganvie, Benin, Henry Wilkins has this report
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