29/01/2023
Children face devastating drought in the Horn of Africa
Millions of children are at risk from one of the worst climate-induced emergencies in decades.
Ethiopia. A girl cups here had to catch water coming from a tap.
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What’s happening in the Horn of Africa?
Four consecutive seasons of poor rainfall, sharp increases in food prices, and conflict have pushed children and families in the Horn of Africa to the brink of climate change-induced catastrophe.
Exceptional drought across large swathes of Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Eritrea and Djibouti has unleashed hunger, thirst, displacement and death on already vulnerable communities as crops fail and livestock die. By late December 2022, around 20.2 million children across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia were facing the threat of severe hunger, thirst and disease.
