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Sinking feeling: The Roman ruins of Tipasa on the Algerian coast are a Unesco World Heritage Site and just one of 56 such sites under threat from climate change. (Michael Runkel/Robert Harding Premium/AFP)
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Africa’s heritage sites under threat as sea levels rise

For the first time a study has identified 56 heritage sites on the continent’s coast that are exposed to a one-in-100 year coastal extreme event, flooding and erosion

  • Sheree Bega
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