Irish aid worker: Malawi faces existential threat due to climate change

Agnes Jafali (right), tends to seedlings in a tree nursery in the flooding-prone regions around Lake Chilwa in the Machinga district of Malawi. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

An Irish aid worker living in Malawi has said that climate change is posing an “existential threat” that could leave parts of the country uninhabitable if temperatures keep rising.

Conor Kelly, who is from Clane in Co Kildare, has lived in the landlocked country in the south-east of Africa with his family for the past few years.