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Analysts: fast-growing African cities at 'extreme risk' from climate change
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Analysts: fast-growing African cities at 'extreme risk' from climate change

Researchers at UK-based Verisk Maplecroft find 84 of world's 100 fastest-growing cities are at 'extreme risk' from impacts of a warming planet, including 79 in Africa.

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