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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Peter Muiruri in Kenya, Patience Akumu in Uganda, Silence Charumbira in South Africa

Hunger and hope: Africans tell of desperation and innovation as climate summit meets

A woman harvests cowpeas on her plot of land in  Moyale, Kenya
A woman harvests cowpeas, a key crop in semi-arid regions across Africa and Asia, in Moyale, Kenya. She was given the seeds as part of a recovery project when locusts wiped out crops in the region. Photograph: Luis Tato/FAO/AFP/Getty Images

African heads of state, ministers, leaders and campaigners are meeting this week in Nairobi for the first climate summit held on the continent. An estimated 30,000 delegates are in the Kenyan capital to debate and lobby governments to keep their commitments to support the people suffering the worst consequences of the climate crisis while contributing the least to its causes.

Africa has been hard hit by climate-related extreme weather, fuelling a severe hunger crisis affecting millions. We speak to people about living on the frontline of the crisis in three African countries, and what can be done to mitigate some of the problems.

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