Somalis try to embrace alternative energies as climate change wreaks havoc

[Deeq A.]

The collapse of Somalia’s central government in 1991 and the subsequent absence of law and order removed any restraints on tree cutting in the East African state. Businesses and individuals took their machetes to the forest and began chopping down trees indiscriminately, to use as firewood or to produce charcoal for sale and export.

Source: Hiiraan Online