Drought in Somalia could hit not only livelihoods but also ‘pastoralists identity’ by United Nations News

With drought in Somalia on the verge of affecting 2.2 million across the country - almost a fifth of the population - UN agencies are calling for urgent funds for critical livelihood support.

Stressing that drought is causing crops to fail and livestock to die, OCHA’s Justin Brady said that not only livelihoods were at stake, but the whole centuries-old “identity” of pastoralists in the region.

Audio: Paulina Greer, UN News
Photo: Internally Displaced Persons at a World Food Program aid center at the 'KM-13' camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu. Many of these people have walked for days from rural villages looking for food in the nation's capital. (March 2017) Credit: UNOCHA/Giles Clarke