Back-to-back droughts, COVID-19, and effects from the Ukraine war have created dire conditions for the eastern region of Africa.
Somalia and its neighbors in the Horn of Africa, including Ethiopia and Kenya, are facing unprecedented drought conditions.
With crops failing, the United Nations says some 22 million people are at risk of starvation; many farmers only grow enough food to feed their families.
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“People will be forced to flee to look for food,” warned Rein Paulsen with the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization. Many in the region who rely on livestock for livelihood have seen massive numbers of their animals wiped out.
“For example, in northern Kenya, we’ve lost about 1.5 million herds of livestock,” Joseph Kamara with World Vision Kenya said. “Similarly, in southern Ethiopia, we’ve lost about two million.
In Somalia, we’ve even stopped counting.” In Somalia alone, around eight million people, or half the population, are experiencing crisis hunger. “I have been shocked to my core these past few days by the level of pain and suffering we see so many Somalis enduring. Famine is at the door,” said Martin Griffiths, the United Nations’ humanitarian chief.
Four consecutive droughts and African economies still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic have created these dire conditions.
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“As if that was not enough, the situation has been aggravated by the current conflict in Europe between Russia and Ukraine,” Kamara said. Before the war, Somalia imported 90 percent of its wheat from Russia and Ukraine, while Ethiopia imported 42 percent.
Kenya, which also imports oil, iron, steel, and fertilizers from Russia and Ukraine, imports 44 percent of its wheat from both countries. “It’s been a buildup: From COVID to inflation, to drought, to war in Ukraine,” Kasombo said.
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“So just before one situation gets better, another one crops up, so the impact has been quite deep and long. It’s devastating.
In late August, the first ship carrying grain from Ukraine docked on the Horn of Africa, offloading some 23,000 tons of wheat. “That’s enough wheat to feed 1.5 million people for about a month,” Marianelli of WFP said.
Food experts say that’s a drop in the bucket considering the immediate crisis facing millions across the Horn of Africa.
Proverbs 11:24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Proverbs 11:25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Proverbs 19:17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Proverbs 22:9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
Luke 6:38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye meet withal it shall be measured to you again.
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