Heat and health: Dar es Salaam's informal settlements need help

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par Lorena Pasquini, Associate Researcher, African Climate & Development Initiative and Climate System Analysis Group, University of Cape Town

In the coming decades, heat will become one of the most significant and visible impacts of climate change, particularly in Africa, where temperatures are expected to increase faster than the global average. Heat is linked to both increases in deaths and disease.

The African continent has received far less attention than high-income…