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Africa Focus: African elderly people bear the brunt of disasters

Senior citizens across Sub-Saharan Africa have suffered disproportionately as natural and man-made disasters strike with increased frequency and intensity, experts said on Friday.

Animesh Kumar, Program Officer for Africa with UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), regretted that the continent's elderly people are more vulnerable to disasters.

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