{"id":5739,"date":"2022-03-07T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/poor-african-countries-spending-millions-to-cope-with-climate-crisis"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:34:08","slug":"poor-african-countries-spending-millions-to-cope-with-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/poor-african-countries-spending-millions-to-cope-with-climate-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor African countries spending millions to cope with climate crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot2022-03-07125350_1646646895.png?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sierra Leone, the world\u2019s fifth poorest country, is estimated to spend $90m annually on climate adaptation<br\/><br\/><\/strong>Countries in Africa are spending millions of dollars annually coping with the effect of climate change, threatening to drive such states into deeper poverty, a recent study shows.<br\/><br\/>&#8230;\u201cThis report shows the deep injustice of the\u00a0climate emergency. Some of the poorest countries in the world are having to use scarce resources to adapt to a crisis not of their making,\u201d said Mohamed Adow, director of Power Shift Africa.<br\/><br\/>\u201cThese African countries are suffering from droughts, storms, and floods which are putting already stretched public finances under strain and limiting their ability to tackle other problems.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone, the world\u2019s fifth poorest country, is estimated to spend $90m annually on climate adaptation Countries in Africa are spending millions of dollars annually coping with the effect of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[28],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-5739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-adaptation"],"acf":{"url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6969,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions\/6969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5739"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}