In the last year, the region has experienced two straight seasons with levels of rainfall lower than averages, causing the fall of productivity of crops, the exhaustion of pastures and a significant increase in mortality of livestock. According to Unicef, about 40% of the approximately 19.5 million nomadic pastoralists of these African regions survive on less than a dollar a day. These low-income are continuously threatened, since the livestock on which they depend is vulnerable to the vagaries of nature. When drought weaken and kill their animals, these people, of itself marginalized, lose everything what you possess. Refugees from conflicts with an inadequate humanitarian response, the combination of drought and war in the Horn of Africa, and in particular in Somalia, has caused the mass exodus of thousands of people toward neighboring countries like Kenya. There is greater refugee camp in the world, in Dadaab, which currently looks overwhelmed by more than 350,000 people.
In these refugee camps, according to complaint doctors without borders, the refugees, mostly women and children, are without shelter, water, food or money. It takes an average of 12 days to receive a first food ration. And the situation is exacerbated as the days pass. According to the UN Agency for Refugees (UNHCR), in so far this year, 44,000 new refugees have been registered and it is estimated that by the end of 2011 they will be already 450,000, more than the population of the city of Murcia. X-ray of every country Somalia the somali country has an area of 637,657 square kilometers and almost 10 million inhabitants. It is one of the three regions, together with Sudan and Afghanistan more time leading in crisis, around 30 years. According to FAO, malnutrition rates are among the worst in the world (one in four Somali children suffering from extreme malnutrition). Currently, 2.5 million people (one of each three Somalis) they need humanitarian aid, but due to the conflict that suffer in the South of the country, coupled with the prospects of poverty by future harvests, many more Somalis could fall into a serious crisis.
In these refugee camps, according to complaint doctors without borders, the refugees, mostly women and children, are without shelter, water, food or money. It takes an average of 12 days to receive a first food ration. And the situation is exacerbated as the days pass. According to the UN Agency for Refugees (UNHCR), in so far this year, 44,000 new refugees have been registered and it is estimated that by the end of 2011 they will be already 450,000, more than the population of the city of Murcia. X-ray of every country Somalia the somali country has an area of 637,657 square kilometers and almost 10 million inhabitants. It is one of the three regions, together with Sudan and Afghanistan more time leading in crisis, around 30 years. According to FAO, malnutrition rates are among the worst in the world (one in four Somali children suffering from extreme malnutrition). Currently, 2.5 million people (one of each three Somalis) they need humanitarian aid, but due to the conflict that suffer in the South of the country, coupled with the prospects of poverty by future harvests, many more Somalis could fall into a serious crisis.
