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African mountains under threat

Nairobi: Africa's two highest mountains will lose their ice cover within 25 to 50 years, environmentalists have said.

Ice will disappear from Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain and Mount Kenya, the second highest, if deforestation and industrial pollution are not stopped, said Fredrick Njau of the Kenyan Green Belt Movement.

Mt. Kilimanjaro has already lost 82 per cent of its ice cover over 80 years, said Mr. Njau. Mt. Kenya, one of the few places near the equator with permanent glaciers, has lost 92 per cent of its ice over the past 100 years. — AP

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