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The United Nations is warning that 350,000 children in Somalia could die due to starvation unless the world rallies to provide food aid to the impoverished African nation that is in the grips of a fourth straight year of crippling drought made worse by climate change.
“As we speak now, 1.4 million children under five years of age are severely malnourished, and if we don’t step up our intervention, it is projected that 350,000 of them will perish by the summer of this year. The situation cannot be more dire than that,” Adam Abdelmoula from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said. “So, I call on all those who are able to contribute, including the Somali diaspora, the business community, the traditional and non-traditional donors, everyone, to act and to act now.”
Three years of successive drought have left Somalia’s largest river, the Juba, almost entirely dry. The lack of water has impacted an estimated 4.5 million people, many of whom make their living as farmers.
“Of all the droughts I have experienced in my 70 years, I have not seen anything as severe as this,” Ahmad Hassan Yarrow, a Somali resident forced from his home in search of food and water, told the U.N.
In its recently released Sixth Assessment of the state of the world’s climate, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that climate change and an “ongoing La Niña” — a climate pattern resulting in dryer weather for the Horn of Africa — were to blame for the drought and soaring temperatures baking the region.
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✍️: Yahoo News
📸: Reuters
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Someone please introduce them to birth control. These mothers must be horrified 😢
Yeah but America is 60% overweight so there’s that
Weird how it helped Afghanistan. But it’s doing bad to every other country. 🤨
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It’s a drought and the climate does change as a constant in life and history – this is not a political issue and the US Government cannot control the weather, as much as they would love for you to believe that, they cannot. Do understand though, that “Climate Change Initiatives” by the Government are just a blanket excuse to have an open checkbook to spend (ie “take”) your earned money… without limit.
So said it is unfortunate because a lot of people don’t believe in global warming
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