Almost no raindrops for eighteen months. In the village of Hargududo in Ethiopia’s Somali region, nomadic families have lost most of their livestock. “There are no more animals,” says Abdi Kabe Adan, a victim of the drought. I saw goats eating their own excrement and camels eating other camels. I’ve never seen anything like this in my entire life. »
The United Nations estimates that in Ethiopia between 5% and 6% of the population, or 5.5 million and 6.5 million people, are in a situation of severe food insecurity due to drought. This humanitarian catastrophe comes on top of that caused by the conflict in the Tigray region in the north of the country. In its latest report, the IPCC estimates that the frequency of droughts in East Africa has doubled since 2005.
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