Drought In Drought In Somalia

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Introduction
Somalia has been in drought for many years. A drought is basically a lengthy period of time with little or no rainfall this leads to a shortage of water in the country. This can have a huge impact on the people and the economy. They are many possible changes that can lead to droughts for example, climate change, population growth, uneven distribution of water resources, urbanisation and many more. I am going to mainly focus on how the drought in Somalia affects the people.
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Somalia: drought affecting thousands in Somaliland
The drought that is currently affecting Somalia is no ordinary drought. It is the worst in 36 years. Other places in Somalia haven’t received rain for nine months. The grass has been destroyed cattle and goats are dying in huge numbers. Since animals are not buried their carcasses lie all over even on roads. Riverbeds are slowly drying out. Many people depend on livestock and vegetation for survival. People are now malnourished since they decide to take food that they were going to eat and feed the cattle and goats with it. Some who can’t even afford their own food eventually take grass from their roofs to feed the cows this then leaves the people living in adequate shelter.
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Horn of Africa sees 'worst drought in 60 years”.
Drought is one of the natural disaster that develop slowly one might not even notice. Droughts tend to last a long time. Compared to other natural disasters droughts, unlike earthquakes or cyclones where they are an exact time or date. This makes it difficult to know the exact time the drought started or ended. Droughts kill more people while floods affect more people. 22 million people die during the year 1960-20...

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...gh evaporation rates which leads to land drying up. Since the land heats up quicker and takes a long time to cool down this then cause problems for farmers who may be planting crops that are temperature specific.

Conclusion
In the articles above it is clearly stated that a drought has a huge impact on people is well explained giving us a true and relent insight on how the change in climate can lead to drastic problems which cannot be solved easily. Lack of precipitation has a great impact on people which then has knock effect making the whole population and country suffer. They is not much one can do to stop this unpredictable long lasting natural disaster. All of this is a result of climate change which may be caused by global warming leading the depletion of ozone layer which can play a role in seasonal changes. Indeed drought affected people in Somalia hugely.

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