Warning !: alarming level of air pollution in Africa, a death trap.

Air pollution is a "silent killer" in cities in Africa, according to a new study.

 According to a study published on Thursday, air pollution in African cities is increasing quickly and is more dangerous than previously thought, but green solutions could prevent tens of thousands of deaths.

Desmond Appiah, the Ghanaian director of the Clean Air Fund, the British NGO that produced the study, stated that air pollution in African cities is high and rising, and quickly. "It kills silently,"

According to the report, urban pollution in Africa has received little attention.

Most people in Africa live in rural areas and have just recently begun migrating to cities.

An earlier study published in the Lancet Planetary Health found that 1.1 million people died of preventable causes due to toxic air, precisely particulate matter and gases from industry, transportation, and wood-burning stoves.

According to UN statistics, 650,000 persons worldwide passed away in the same year from illnesses associated with HIV/AIDS.

The Ghanaian capital of Accra, Cairo, Johannesburg, and Lagos was chosen as the study's four fast-expanding cities to examine in order to determine the health, environmental, and economic impacts of pollution.

It contrasts the outcomes of a trajectory with business as usual until 2040 with a green scenario in which cities implement initiatives to enhance air quality, such as modernizing public transportation and introducing cleaner cooking appliances.

The analysis found that going green may lower emissions in these cities by around 20% by 2040, saving 125,000 lives and $20 billion in expenses.

The financial burden will more than multiply six times if nothing is done.

"Africa's economic development will be fueled by By 2060, more than 65% of the continent's population is anticipated to reside in cities, according to the Clean Air Fund.

The main question right now is how quickly, fairly, and sustainably this growth will occur. "By the end of the century, Africa will host five of the world's ten largest megacities," the source predicted.

The Health Effects Institute (HEI), a Boston-based research organization, said on Thursday that the human cost of air pollution in Africa is among the highest in the world.

According to a report by HEI, the fatality rate from air pollution in sub-Saharan Africa is 155 per 100,000 people, nearly twice the global average of 85.6 per 100,000 people.