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Belfast Live
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Shauna Corr

Climate crisis: Mum buries toddler by the roadside in drought-hit Somalia

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.

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