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Fleeing climate change

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

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Climate Change

The jury is out so far on whether we should be using the term climate refugee at all, and there's no clear definition of what a climate refugee is anyway. Francois and Alexandre talk to us about how climate change is already causing people to move - and where in the world this is happening. The region that is mostly affected by these is sub-Saharan Africa. But first, Somalia has long had a forbidding climate, searing heat and dried desert conditions. Now, relentless droughts have stripped millions of rural herders of their animals and driven humans closer to water supplies.

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