Powerful Photos Reveal a Nation in Crisis as Drought Hits
Observers fear that two years of drought will soon become famine in Somalia.
In 2010, drought struck Somalia, and shortly after famine followed. When the rains returned, a quarter of a million people had died. Last Tuesday, the country’s government declared the current drought a national disaster.
On Sunday, Somalia announced that 110 people from a single region had died in 48 hours as a result. Weather observers see a reflection of the 2011 crisis—and fear that number is just the beginning.
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