ADDIS ABABA, (Xinhua) — The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations said Monday that ongoing drought in several parts of Ethiopia have killed around 6.8 million livestock. In its latest Ethiopia Humanitarian Response Plan report, FAO said the massive livestock losses happened in the country’s Oromia, Somali and Southern regions. “These drought...
Heavy rains cause deaths of drought-weakened livestock animals Severe flooding has replaced the disastrous drought that killed millions of livestock in the Somali Region, further destabilizing an already fragile society. The flood has claimed 45 lives, displaced 35,000 households, and killed 23,000 livestock in the Somali region alone, according to a report published by the...
MOGADISHU, Somalia– The drought affecting millions of people in the Horn of Africa has been made worse by human-induced climate change, a new study said on Thursday. The study published by World Weather Attribution, an academic collaboration studying extreme meteorological events, found that the southern part of the Horn of Africa, covering parts of southern...
Thousands of drought and conflict-displaced families living in camps in Luq and Dollow are sleeping without a roof over their heads, after their homes and belongings were washed away by flash floods striking southern Somalia’s Gedo region. Ambiyo Mohamed Yarow and her four children joined Dinsor camp on the outskirts of Luq just four months...
More than 45,900 internally displaced people, mostly women, children, are in at least 13 camps struggling to access food, says MSF coordinator Mohammed Dhaysane MOGADISHU, Somalia, The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) medical charity said Tuesday that a long drought and continuous insecurity in Somalia have displaced 3.8 million people. Those displaced hope to find food,...
“We didn’t have enough to feed them and they succumbed” ByShauna Corr A mother has revealed how she had to bury her three-year-old at the roadside during their ‘long walk’ to escape climate induced starvation that killed three of her children. Somalia hasn’t seen a drop of rain for three years, forcing around 3 million...
Samira Abdi fixes worried eyes on her six-year-old son as a nurse lays him gently in a weighing basin at a nutrition centre in the Melkadida refugee camp in Ethiopia’s eastern Somali region. Samira brought him and another of her children here after they suffered weeks of stomach pains, but she already knows what torments...
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an East African bloc, on Monday appealed for 2.69 billion U.S. dollars in funding to save millions of people at risk of starvation in Kenya, Uganda, and Somalia due to drought. The situation continues to worsen, with 47 million people being highly food insecure and some at risk of...
Weather, jihadists and the Ukraine war all share some of the blame First the rains in Somalia failed in 2021. Then they failed again and again and again and again. For five wet seasons in a row, Somalis looked anxiously to the skies while their crops withered, their cattle perished and many people died of...
DAADAB, Kenya – Incessant hunger and chronic insecurity forced Rukia Yaroow Ali and her nine children to abandon their home in Jilib, Somalia, to seek shelter at the Hagadera refugee camp in northern Kenya. “My husband was a successful farmer, but when the drought hit, he wasn’t able to grow any food,” explained 38-year-old Ms. Ali....