Lake Chad, once one of the world's largest water bodies, could disappear in 20 years due to climate change and population pressures resulting in a humanitarian disaster in central Africa, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The lake has shrunk by 90%, going from 25,000 km~2 in 1963 to less than 1500 km~2 in 2001.rnIncreased illegal fishing activities in the Indian Ocean are threatening to destock tropical tunas along the Eastern and Southern African coast according to the Kenyan Fisheries Development minister.
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