Somalia faces worst drought in a decade, climate crisis worsens Somalia's woes

 

 

Somalia is currently witnessing the harshest drought in the recent past the climate crisis in the African nation is now leading to major displacement and a humanitarian crisis people in Somalia say that it has not rained for two years their land is parched leaving the cattle dead and crops failing the united nations world food program says that the horn of Africa region is now facing the driest conditions in more than four decades this after the failure of three consecutive rainy seasons it also adds that more than four million Somalis will now struggle to even find food if it if the rains don't come in April commenting on the grim crisis unfolding in the horn of Africa the world food programmed spokesperson has said if this year's reigns do not materialize 1.4 million children under 5 will be acutely malnourished by the end of the year alongside the wfp's director for Somalia  says and i quote these people have lost everything human suffering is human suffering no matter whether it is in  Europe or Africa or Asia or anywhere we  have a crisis in the making this is not the first drought of this  decade for Somalia . Somalia has experienced a series of catastrophic droughts in the last 10 years the famine early warning system network says that the global weather patterns indicate that rains are likely to fail again this year and has warned that the region could experience its worst drought on record earlier this month the united nations intergovernmental panel on climate change said that heat waves droughts and extreme rainfall would become more frequent in the coming decades as temperatures continue to rise troops have repeatedly clashed in the Seoul region conflict that has displaced more than ten thousand people Mogadishu and international aid agencies have called for an immediate end to violence in liberty.