Thirteen million Nigerians are currently at risk due to climate change vulnerability, says a report on Nigeria under UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It says that those at risk would have to relocate.The report indicates that the inhabitants of the nation's coastal areas and communities on desertification zone would be at serious risk as well as floods and erosion in the coastal areas.

A comparative study of debt relief and spending on oil and human services in on-petroleum producing countries in Africa that receive assistance under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative—the countries hit hardest by high world oil prices.

Conservationists in Uganda are fighting a last-ditch battle to stop the destruction of a forest reserve by a sugar corporation friendly with the government.

Food production in developing countries will halve in the next 20 years unless wealthy nations lower their rate of consumption, the Stockholm Environment Institute warned at a weekend conference. The livelihoods of more than three billion people in the world are being undermined by the wealth of the privileged few the institutes's executive director, Johan Rockstroem, warned.

Tens of millions of people could be driven from their homes by encroaching deserts, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia. The study by the United Nations University suggests climate change is making desertification "the greatest environmental challenge of our times."

Sudan - Decades of drought helped trigger Darfur's violence as rival groups fought over scarce water and arable land.Now, experts fear the war and its refugee crisis are making the environment even worse, leaving the land increasingly uninhabitable and intensifying tensions with no end to the drought in sight.

Scientists are looking at the potential for rapid climate change to create droughts. Droughts have affected all areas of the world, and could become more common.

Nigeria, the 8th largest oil producer in the world, has numerous problems. 70% of its population lives on $1 a day, life expectancy is 47, and its government is one of the most corrupt in the world. Oil production is being threatened by armed gangs extorting companies through sabotage and kidnapping.

The 2007 elections in Nigeria highlight the problems apparent throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, like government corruption and lack of infrastructure. Many people are idealizing the military dictatorships of the 1960s.