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Obstacles facing Africa’s young climate scientists

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Current and future climate change poses a substantial threat to the African continent. Young scientists are needed to advance Earth systems science on the continent, but they face significant challenges.

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  1. International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Victor Nnamdi Dike

  2. Energy, Climate and Environment Science Group, Imo State Polytechnic Umuagwo, Umuagwo-Ohaji, Imo State, Nigeria

    Victor Nnamdi Dike

  3. Ghana Meteorological Agency, Legon, Accra, Ghana

    Martin Addi

  4. Department of Meteorology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

    Hezron Awiti Andang’o

  5. Seychelles Meteorological Authority, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles

    Hezron Awiti Andang’o

  6. University of Carthage, Polytechnic School of Tunisia, La Marsa, Tunisia

    Bahar Faten Attig

  7. National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Laboratory of Materials, Measurements, and Applications, Tunis, Tunisia

    Bahar Faten Attig

  8. Department of Oceanography, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

    Rondrotiana Barimalala, Marcel Du Plessis & Precious N. Mongwe

  9. Agence Nationale de la Météorologie du Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

    Ulrich Jacques Diasso

  10. Southern Ocean Carbon-Climate Observatory, CSIR, Cape Town, South Africa

    Marcel Du Plessis & Precious N. Mongwe

  11. Faculty of Sciences of Nature and Life and Earth Sciences, University of Bouira, Bouira, Algeria

    Salim Lamine

  12. Climate System Analysis Group, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

    Modathir Zaroug

  13. African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

    Modathir Zaroug

  14. Global Change and Sustainability Institute, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Valentine Khasenye Ochanda

  15. Department of Environment, Technical University of Mombasa, Mombasa, Kenya

    Valentine Khasenye Ochanda

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Dike, V.N., Addi, M., Andang’o, H.A. et al. Obstacles facing Africa’s young climate scientists. Nature Clim Change 8, 447–449 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0178-x

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