Drought is a prolonged dry period in the natural climate cycle that can occur anywhere in the world.
Somalia is currently enduring five consecutive seasons of failed rains, which has left five million people in acute food insecurity and nearly two million children at risk of malnutrition.
Global aid agencies believe that a declaration of famine in Somalia is imminent. Famine declarations are only made under extreme conditions: when 30 percent of a region’s children are severely malnourished, or 20 percent of the population has no access at all to food and there are two hunger-related deaths per 10,000 people each day.
“This seems to be an invisible famine,” said Gayle Smith, CEO of One.org, and former US Agency for International Development administrator under President Obama. “It’s on the horizon, it’s happening. There’s been plenty of warning from the Somalia authorities, from NGOs, from others. I think there’s some awareness, but it has not triggered the kind of international response that one would expect, and is in fact needed.
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