The two interesting pieces below make the case that there is a correlation between increased livestock exports from East Africa and a rise in lawlessness and food insecurity in those societies as a result of larger herd sizes and overgrazing to meet the meat demand of the Gulf...
Somalilanders blame Somalia's government for the famine engulfing the FMS. The comments on this portrays what the average Somalilander is the cause of this repeating famine on their federal member state, the FGS, although they SL has denounced to sit with the FGS multiple times during last decade.
https://news.yahoo.com/climate-change-and-russias-war-in-ukraine-help-push-somalia-to-the-brink-of-famine-231159528.html
THE IMPACT ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE
Many Puntites and other Social media influencers have been fund raising money for Gedo, this particular region has been neglected by the IC and FGS, the state is most militarized region in Somalia and has Amison/KDF/ERDF/SNA, Alshabaab and Jubbaland forces fighting over its controll, please...
All of the indicators are worse in October 2021 than they were in October 2016 right before the worst drought in Somali history.
The 2017 drought was actually worse than the 2011 drought, not as many people died in 2017 because international aid was so swift.
The very important nutrition alarm...
The 2017 deyr has failed and will not be sufficient for food production. Gu and deyr of 2016 failed, and so did the gu of 2017. With the failure of the 2017 deyr this means that it has been 4 rainy seasons since Somalia has had sufficient rainfall for any significant amount of food production...
FAO is saying that the situation is getting even worse, if that is even possible. 3.1 million people are acutely malnourished, or 25% of Somalia's population. Rains not expected until mid October- early November. I think that the majority of the country may be in phase 4 by then...
Imagine Somalis being the descendants of the first humans to invent farming and agriculture. Now imagine that we are a mostly nomadic people who despise farming and suffer from annual droughts and famine...
One of my friends is considering visiting Somalia.
She hasn't been there since she was born.
But all she keeps hearing from her relatives back home is that 'this is not a good time visit'
because of the famine/drought which has plagued the land.
Here is a vid capturing the suffering back home...
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