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Tag: Sahel

Amina Suleiman Gas, 45 stands amidst the carcasses of her dead animals, piled for burning outside the compound where she has lived for 10 years in Barwako village 20kms into the desert from Anaibo Town, central Somaliland. She sent most of her livestock west with her neighbor in November 2016 when the drought began to get worse and fears they have not survived, she was left with 12 animals. Barwako was a village of 100 families but 245 more have come in from the surrounding area because of the drought. At least 6.2 million people, more than half the population, needed assistance after 4 consecutive seasons of failed rains over 3 years have left the region depleted of all its resources and experiencing a drought on a scale not seen since 1974 and was on the verge of famine.

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