A mother has revealed how she had to bury her three-year-old at the roadside during their ‘long walk’ to escape climate induced starvation that killed three of her children.
Somalia hasn’t seen a drop of rain for three years, forcing around 3 million people to flee rural communities in search of food.
But we learned during a visit to the country’s Gedo region, this bid to escape certain death is a gauntlet of danger and death for Somalia’s women and children, who are bearing the brunt of this climate crisis catastrophe.