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Pan-African Peace Consortium calls for climate reparations for Africa

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The Pan-African Peace Consortium, coordinated by Dr Nounga Djomo Ernest, is calling on industrial powers to provide financial reparations for the effects of climate change in Africa. The organisation is also calling for the protection of indigenous communities and a future global climate conference in a Congo Basin country, according to its statement on the links between climate and security.

The Pan-African Peace Consortium is calling on major industrial powers to pay financial reparations for the consequences of climate change in Africa. The demand is set out in a declaration signed by its general coordinator, Dr Nounga Djomo Ernest, Corbeaunews Centrafrique reports.

The organisation is also calling for the protection of indigenous communities and for a future global climate conference to be held in a country in the Congo Basin. It draws a link between climate disruption, dwindling natural resources and rising security tensions in Africa.

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