Climate Crisis Creates ‘Perfect Storm’ for New Outbreaks in Horn of Africa
- WHO warns 47 million people are already facing acute hunger
- Agency calls for UN meeting to deliver temperature agreement
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Disease outbreaks and climate-related health emergencies in the Horn of Africa are at the highest this century as large swathes of the region battle the worst drought in at least 40 years.
The World Health Organization issued the bleak assessment on Thursday and called for world leaders to agree on stemming the rise in temperatures at the United Nations climate summit that starts on Sunday.