Letters to the Editor: We must act to prevent more famine deaths

A prolonged drought in the Horn of Africa has already pushed 22m people to the edge of starvation.

With all eyes on Cop27 in Egypt last week, the climate crisis received much-needed attention. But after all the extensive deliberations in Sharm-al-Sheikh, and the G20 Summit in Bali, which ran parallel to the COP process, those on the frontlines of the climate crisis still seem to be forgotten.

A prolonged drought in the Horn of Africa has already pushed 22m people to the edge of starvation. Yet we have still received little clarity on how global leaders will respond at the scale that is so urgently needed to stem a widespread famine.