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Africa-Press – Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span>The death rate from the overwhelming floods in and around South Africa\u2019s port city of Durban keeps rising. As of April 14, over 300 bodies had been counted by emergency service workers\u2026 Fear the numbers may increase as the days go by.<\/b><\/p>\n

Nonala Ndlovu, spokesperson for the provincial disaster management department, said the death toll was \u201cone of the darkest moments in the history\u201d of KZN.<\/p>\n

South Africa\u2019s President Ramaphosa has described the situation as “a catastrophe of enormous proportions”. According to the AFP, the storm is the deadliest on the record in South Africa\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

On his visit to the affected communities on Wednesday, Ramaphosa said disastrous flooding in the Durban area has a direct connection with the climate emergency. \u201cThis disaster is part of climate change\u2026 It is here, and our disaster management capability needs to be at a higher level.\u201d He said.<\/p>\n

South Africa’s flood victims struggle to find shelters https:\/\/t.co\/lD9JLcldMo<\/p>\n

According to a World Bank report, floods and droughts have affected 3 billion people, over the last two decades.<\/p>\n

The Durban situation coupled with droughts witnessed in other parts of the region this year alone has paved way for a deeper conversation into the impact of climate change on Africa and perhaps a retrospect on the 2021 Glasgow Climate Change Conference, which sought to make climate change a thing of the past.<\/p>\n

One of the first objectives of COP26 was to ensure that the 1.5\u00b0C objective remains \u201calive\u201d and that all commitments converge towards a carbon-free world by the middle of the century.<\/p>\n

COP26 summit: DRC president pledges to fight deforestation of the Congo basin https:\/\/t.co\/gAYunfdqa3<\/p>\n

Whiles world leaders manage to mitigate the situation, there is a school of thought, which says the crisis cannot be solved. A climate communications research fellow-university of Queensland in the article \u201cthere is nothing we can do anyway\u201d samples various arguments on the climate crisis. The article raises the issue of how an attempt to solve climate change will affect a country\u2019s economy, arguing that the world must choose between a healthy economy and a healthy environment.<\/p>\n

However, Juergen Voegele, Vice President for Sustainable Development, World Bank believes adopting the EPIC response framework will help governments, organizations, and practitioners working on climate resilience and disaster risk management address climate-related challenges.<\/p>\n

Whiles this may come across as a lasting solution to the crisis, the United Nations Environment Programme predicts extreme flooding will continue to be concentrated in regions where humans have built on floodplains or low-lying coastal regions. With this, other African countries may have to take a cue from the current Durban disaster.<\/p>\n

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