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AFRICA
• Velingara, Senegal
• Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
• Flood in Mozambique
• Parrot’s Beak, Sierra Leone/Liberia
• Banjul, Gambia
• Tripoli, Libya
• Midrand, South Africa
• Lake Victoria, Uganda
• Mount Kenya, Kenya
• Tai National Park, Cote d’Ivoire
AFRICA
• Itampolo, Madagascar
• Kisangani, D.R. of Congo
• Challawa Gorge Dam, Nigeria
• Lake Chad, Nigeria, Niger,
Chad, Cameroon
• Lesotho Highlands Water
Project, Lesotho
• Lake Nakuru, Kenya
• Peanut Basin, Senegal
• Revane, Senegal
• Narok, Kenya
• Toshka Project, Egypt
AFRICA
22 August 1999:
Mozambique under
normal conditions
1 March 2000:
Mozambique under
water
Impact of Civil Wars on Guinea
30.51
30.00
22.13
20.00 16.05
11.71
10.00 8.57
0.00
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2015
Total Population
200
159
150
115
100 84
61
45
50 32 36
21 26
9 12 16
0
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2015
Lake Victoria Africa Average
Note: Figures for 2010
and 2015 are estimates.
Diversity in Mt. Kenya Ecosystems
Kenya
• 1999: Impact of
flooding upstream from
the dam; colour of the
water in the flooded area
indicates high sediments
Shrinking Lake Chad shared by
Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon
Persistent drought has
shrunk the lake to about
a tenth of its former size
Shows growing
patchwork of savannas
(greenish patches)
• 1999: Hundreds of
villages are scattered
throughout the region to
enjoy fallow and grazing
lands
Changing Landscape in
Ravene, Senegal
Images show impact
of drought and over-
grazing on the
woody vegetation
2005:
New fields
are clearly
visible in
the image
AFRICA’S LAKES
• There are 60 transboundary river basins in Africa, covering over 63 per cent of the continent’s land
area
• Lake Chad’s surface area has shrunk by 95 per cent over the past 35
years
• Uncontrolled damming, the withdrawal of water for irrigation, and climate
variability are the major causes of drying up of Lake Tonga in Algeria
• Population growth around Lake Victoria, the continent’s largest lake, is significantly higher than the
rest of Africa
• Some lakes in central Africa have become known as “killer lakes,” because of the catastrophic natural
events that have occurred in their vicinity
• Flooding destroys
significant portion of crops
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