Agriculture, fossil fuel burning the main reasons why Africa is emitting more carbon

Research by the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) finds that Africa has moved from being a net carbon sink to a net carbon source in nine years, meaning the rate at which carbon is being released from the continent has increased.

Wits explains that Africa went from absorbing more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases to releasing more carbon into the atmosphere than it absorbs, over the period from 2010 to 2019.