Horn of Africa faces brutal drought and food crisis
, including a risk of famine for Somalia. Said Guleid Artan, director of the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre, the WMO’s regional climate centre for east Africa:
Sadly, our models show, with a high degree of confidence, that we are entering the fifth consecutive failed rainy season in the Horn of Africa.“In Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, we are on the brink of an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe,” he added. The drought has coincided with a global rise in food and fuel prices, pushed up by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has hit parts of Africa hardest. The World Bank said in June that an estimated 66.4 million people in the Horn of Africa were forecast to experience food stress, a food crisis, a food emergency or famine by last month.In times of uncertainty you need journalism you can trust.
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