Drought and the Ukraine War Are Pushing Somalia Toward a Catastrophic Famine

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More than 1 million people have been displaced by drought in Somalia, according to staggering figures released yesterday by the UN Refugee Agency and Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). The majority of them—some 775,000—were displaced this year as the country of 16 million grapples with a drought that began in January 2021. It’s Somalia’s worst one in decades, forcing people from rural areas to flee to cities in search of food and water.

Source: Hiiraan Online