A set of makeshift houses for drought-displaced people in Dolow, Somalia. Photo by Malin Fezehai for The New York Times
With extreme climate-induced events in the Horn of Africa, Somalia is grappling with a historic drought worst in a 40-year history following a series of under-performed rainy seasons resulting in an appalling humanitarian crisis amid tensions and insecurity. Climate change as a “risks-multiplier” would not only leave longer-lasting effects on the livelihood means of the most vulnerable communities that had been consistently suffering from back-to-back famine but also undermines peace, social cohesion, ignites human rights abuses, and escalates local communal tensions compromising Somalia’s peace and state-building efforts. Against the backdrop of this, Juba Institute concisely analyses impending risks and provides a set of policy interventions to the Government of Somalia and its international donor partners to help alleviate the crisis.
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