Forced displacement and the food crises in Africa - letter publication
2 May 2017
In a letter to the Secretary of State, Priti Patel MP, drawing attention to the evidence the Committee has received on this important topic. The Committee says that the displacement and food crisis in Central and East Africa must rise up the international public and political agenda to avoid scenes similar to those of the 2011 famine in Somalia which killed over a quarter of a million people.
- The text of the full letter can be found here: Letter – 28 April 2017
- The Committee has also published the transcript of the evidence session on Tuesday 25 April with development stakeholders here: Transcript – 25 April 2017
- The written evidence submitted to the inquiry is also available here: Written evidence
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