The IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is sounding the alarm in its new report.
The decline in agricultural production that will affect the entire African continent will primarily concern the Sahel.
Niger, in particular, could face one of its worst food crises.
Details from our correspondent in Niamey, Harold Girard.
Activists and the family of DR Congo President Félix Tshisekedi's "Monsieur sécurité" have denounced the harsher conditions of his detention, 25 days after his arrest, and called for a fair trial or his "immediate release".
Special adviser to the Head of State in terms of security, François Beya was arrested on February 5 by the National Intelligence Agency, the civil intelligence service.
In Tunisia, a first group of 106 students evacuated from Ukraine arrived in Tunis on Tuesday aboard a chartered military plane from Bucharest.
A group of 17 Ghanaian students arrived at Kotoka International Airport in Accra.
At a time when African countries are trying to help their nationals flee Ukraine, which has been invaded by the Russian army, Côte d'Ivoire, at the UN platform, warns against the "racist behavior" that suffer some African students who try to flee the country.
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