SOMALIA: Effects of Drought Turning Deadly
The South African Mail and Guardian newspaper reports:Â Â
The worst drought to hit Somalia in a decade could soon begin claiming lives in the Horn of Africa nation, the international Red Cross warned on Wednesday.Â
The paper quoted Pascal Hundt; head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) mission (Somalia) as saying:Â Â
If there is no rapid, effective response to this crisis now, and if there is no rain in April, the situation is going to get worse, and people will start getting hungry — and will start dying. (…)We are seeing a process of spreading poverty,” said Hundt. “People have sold the few goods they had, and they can’t sell their animals because they are no longer worth anything on the market. They are running out of ways to survive.
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