Climate & Environment

COP 27: ‘Africa is the least responsible for global warming but bears the worst impacts’

COP 27, taking place this year in Sharm El Sheikh, will focus on aid for developing countries to mitigate the harms caused by high-emitting rich nations, but it also needs to hammer home the message that climate pledges mean nothing if action is not taken

The Horn of Africa is facing acute food insecurity due to drought that has been exacerbated by climate change

Sudi Salad Dirie was forced to flee her home in Somalia earlier this year. The drought ravaging the Horn of Africa had killed all her livestock, and left her and her family at risk of starvation.

“All of us have been affected by drought before. In the 2017 drought I had some animals left, but this time, we lost everything,” Salad Dirie told a reporter for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from ...