the country is on the verge of famine

Almost a million people in the world are threatened by famine and risk death in the coming months. This is the warning cry launched by the UN in a report published Thursday, September 22. This situation is due to the devastating drought, in the Horn of Africa in particular. In Somalia, half a million children suffer from malnutrition. To escape the drought, hundreds of thousands of people are moving with their herds and their tents. However, wherever they go, drought takes everything.

A Somali is saddened. He explains that 70% of his goats died. When herds wither away, herders have no more milk and meat to sell or eat. Where they are, there is a well, but the water is salty. It gives stomach pain to the population in transit. Children are sick from malnutrition. According to UN figures, 500,000 children are in a state of malnutrition in the country. Thousands of them could die.