Climate change is "relentlessly eating away" at Africa's economic progress, Kenya's president William Ruto said on Tuesday (5 September) as the first-ever Africa Climate Summit kicked off.
"And those who produce the garbage refuse to pay their bills," he told an audience that included EU president Ursula von der Leyen, senior officials from China, and US climate envoy John Kerry.
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