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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Kaamil Ahmed and Moulid Hujale

Somalis in crowded camps on ‘brink of death’ as drought worsens

Women carrying jerrycans of water
Somalia has more than 2,400 displacement camps and almost a fifth of its population is internally displaced. Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty

Somalia’s displacement camps are coming under intense pressure with more than 300,000 people leaving their homes in search of food and water so far this year as the country experiences its worst drought in decades.

People have been walking miles to camps, already home to those escaping the country’s protracted violence, after three consecutive failed rainy seasons since October 2020 that have decimated crops and livestock. Somalia has more than 2,400 such settlements, which already lack resources.

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