Drought, Hunger Crises In Horn Of Africa Nations Exacerbated By Climate Change, Oxfam Says

Thomson Reuters Foundation: Climate change deepening Horn of Africa’s hunger crisis, Oxfam says
“Climate change is making drought and humanitarian disasters worse in the Horn of Africa, Oxfam said on Thursday, ahead of a major climate march in Washington to coincide with the first 100 days of the Trump administration. About 12 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia are at risk of hunger due to recurring droughts, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says, with Somalia at risk of slipping into famine for the second time in six years…” (Wesangula, 4/27).

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