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Africa’s Infrastructure Loses $12.7 Billion to Disasters Annually – Report

eriinfo.com1 day ago06 mins

A report by the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), a global coalition dedicated to enhancing the resilience of infrastructure systems to climate and disaster risks, has put the average annual loss of infrastructure, including buildings caused by disasters in Africa, at $12.7 billion. According to the report, of the damage, 70 per cent is…

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Africa: Wildfire Disasters Are Increasingly in the News, Yet Less Land Is Burning Globally – Here’s Why

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago010 mins

Worldwide, an estimated 440 million people were exposed to a wildfire encroaching on their home at some point between 2002 and 2021, new research shows. That’s roughly equivalent to the entire population of the European Union, and the number has been steadily rising – up 40% over those two decades. With intense, destructive fires often…