Dar es Salaam, July 29 -- IT is 15 years since Omar Mzee Juma, a resident of Mkokotoni, abandoned his home close to the beach and moved into higher land for his family's safety after witnessing floods and soil erosion caused by the rising sea.

"We are now about 50 metres to the beach," he says, "but still I feel unsafe from the rising sea as we continue witnessing soil erosion."

Juma, his family and other residents in Mkokotoni coastal village in the north of the Unguja Island are not the only people living with 'fear' due to floods and soil erosion linked to climate change.

Small islets such as Kojani, Kisiwapanza, Tumbatu, Fundo, Tumbe, Nungwi and Makoongwe, among others, now feel the pinch of the negative impact of climate change, p...