Climate disasters put plight of displaced in COP27 focus


A view shows a beach destination Sharm el-Sheikh during the COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt November 12, 2022. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - Issack Hassan lives in a migrant camp in Baidoa city in Somalia - one of more than a million people displaced since January after five successive failed rainy seasons.

With Somalia in the grips of its worst drought in 40 years, "people became weak because of hunger, so we had to flee for our lives," 82-year-old Hassan said. But he couldn't escape tragedy.

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