CAPPA to Release New report that catalogues climate impacts on African communities, Friday
By Ekemini Simon
A Non-Governmental Organisation, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation (CAPPA) has announced its readiness to launch a four-country report titled Impact of Climate Change on Front-line Communities in Africa: Case study of Nigeria, Cameroon, Togo, and South Africa.
The report is written by Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa, African Centre for Advocacy, Gender CC South Africa, and Centre for Environmental Justice Togo with support from Corporate Accountability.
The organisation says the report will be unveiled on the side-lines of the African Peoples Counter COP which began on October 17, particularly the session of the Counter COP titled Amplifying the Voices of Frontline Communities in Africa on Friday October 21, 2022, at 11am-1pm GMT.
According to a statement signed by, Director of Programmes of the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa, Philip Jakpor, the report documents the challenges faced by communities in Nigeria, Cameroon, Togo, and South Africa and captures their vulnerability to climate change.
The statement notes that the report captures the testimonials of local community people, especially women who bear the burdens of climate change but are not part of or considered relevant in the decision-making processes to address the crisis.
Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa explained that the report details climate impacts on Okun Alfa community, once a leisure resort in Lagos, Nigeria which is now at the mercy of the Atlantic’s raging waters.
The organisation offered insight to the fact that the plight of the Okun Alfa community is exacerbated by the Eko Atlantic City real estate project promoted by the state and the $19 billion Dangote Refinery owned by Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man.
The statement added “In northern Cameroon, the Kakou and Ouro Garga communities struggle with climate change induced drought which has led to a decrease in agricultural yields and disruption of the agricultural calendars that existed for generations.
“In the two communities the cost of food has skyrocketed, forcing families to contend with poverty and malnutrition.
In Togo, the Doevi Kope community, which had rich vegetation cover forests in the 1970S Is now seriously threatened by coastal erosion and coastal flooding.
“The impacts are worsened by the activities of Bolloré Africa Logistics, the company that is currently constructing the Port of Lome.”
The statement pointed out that at Eldorado and Katlehong communities in South Africa, they contend with incessant exposure to drought and heat waves that is now adversely affecting farming and leaving young people unemployed, desperate, and vulnerable.
The statement said the report has gone a step further to recommend holding big polluters accountable for the climate crisis as well as concrete recommendations to government, civil society, and other critical interventionist agencies.