Somalilandsun – In Somaliland’s Awdal region, traditional rains – known locally as Gu and Deyr – which should occur regularly through the year and serve to replenish water reserves and rejuvenate grazing pasture, have failed for several consecutive years.
In this backdrop thousands of herder families are struggling to survive As their animals starve to death especially in Awdal Region where carcases of emaciated livestock littering pastoralists camps reports Ashley Hamer in an Aljazeera piece titled Somaliland’s herders devastated by drought
In the meantime Swaths of Somaliland, a fragile, internationally unrecognised nation-state in the Horn of Africa, have been racked by one of the harshest droughts in two decades which is destroying livelihoods and pushing families into destitution adds Ashley Hamer in another piece titled Somaliland: A parched earth
