Mali has been struggling to deal with a deadly heat wave, with recent records showing up to 40 degrees Celcius by 2pm. It’s thought the heat has led to multiple electricity failures, and an increase in deaths.Soumaila Traoré, a 30-years-old welder, and his workers, work under a blazing sun. in Bamako, Mali, Thursday, April, 18, 2024. On Thursday, temperatures in Bamako reached 44 degrees Celsius and weather forecasts say it’s not letting up anytime soon.
The city’s Gabriel-Touré Hospital reported 102 deaths in the first four days of the month, compared to 130 deaths in all of April last year. It’s unknown how many of the fatalities were due to the extreme weather as such data cannot be made public The heat is also endangering already vulnerable children in Mali — 1 million under the age of 5 were at risk of acute malnutrition at the end of 2023 due to protracted violence, internal displacement, and restricted access to humanitarian aid, according to the World Food Program.
“Either I work and risk my health or I stop working for the most of the day and I earn nothing,” said 25-year-old driver Amadou Coulibaly, who offers rides on his motorbike for a small fee. “Our study found that the extreme temperatures across the region simply wouldn’t have been possible without human-caused warming,” said Clair Barnes, the lead author and a researcher at Imperial College London.
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