JIGJIGA (Halbeeg News) – Severe drought has killed more than one million livestock in Ethiopia’s Somali region, state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate (FBC) reported.
The worst drought in 40 years has hit the region which is located southeastern of the country.
Fana quoting officials reported thousands of pastoralists were displaced by water shortages and lack of food as their livestock.
The United Nations (UN) World Food Program (WFP) had recently warned that the shortages of water and pasture are devastating livelihoods, forcing families from their homes across the regions in southern and southeastern Ethiopia.
“Livestock are dying, crops are failing, and an estimated 5.7 million people wake up hungry every day in southern and southeastern Ethiopia as the Horn of Africa grapples with the most severe drought since 1981,” the WFP had said last week.
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