Did you hear or read about the drought crisis in the horn of Africa ??
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In Somalia, where the average per capita income is roughly $600, 2011 has been a particularly trying year. The arid nation on the Horn of Africa has been devastated by a severe drought, exacerbating the political instability and violence that has long-plagued the profoundly damaged country. (Somalia routinely ranks at the very top of Foreign Policy’s annual “Failed States Index.”)
Many of the victims of the current Somali crisis are, as always, those least able to fend for themselves: children.
Pictured Above: Abdifatah Hassan, who is eleven months old and suffers from severe malnutrition, lies on a cot at a hospital in Dadaab on July 4, 2011.Source : Life
Drought crisis in horn of Africa has been the worse in 60 years, affecting mostly Somalia. UNICEF called the Somalia drought and resulting refugee crisis “the most severe humanitarian emergency in the world”. Many people (mostly children) have fallen dead on the long, dry journeys to a refugee camp.
Source : أرلينه أسد
A newly arrived Somali refugee holds her child at the Dadaab refugee camp Sunday in northeastern Kenya. Thousands of Somalis have fled into neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia due to one of the region's worst droughts in decades.
The Full article is here : Starving Somalis flooding into refugee camp
source : National Post
A Somali man who fled violence and drought in Somalia with his family sits on the ground outside a food distribution point in the Dadaab refugee camp. ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images
One-year-old, Habibo Bashir, rests on a bed at a Doctors Without Borders hospital where he is being treated for severe malnutrition, in Dagahaley Camp, outside Dadaab, Kenya, Monday, July 11, 2011. U.N. refugee chief Antonio Guterres said Sunday that drought-ridden Somalia is the "worst humanitarian disaster" in the world, after meeting with refugees who endured unspeakable hardship to reach the world's largest refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
refugee holds her child in her arms as she and others like her mass outside a food distribution point in Dadaab in the hope of getting access to much needed aid at the worlds biggest refugee camp in the world on July 4, 2011. With a population of 370,000, Dadaab is the world's largest refugee camp even though it was built for just 90,000. With serious drought in the Horn of Africa, thousands of Somalis have arrived in recent weeks in search of food and water. AFP PHOTO/Roberto SCHMIDT
A Somali girl being treated for severe malnutrition pushes away a cup as a woman tries to feed her at a hospital operated by the International Rescue Commission.
Sixty-year-old Suban Osman sits with two of her malnourished grand children at a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) at the Dadaab refugee camp on July 4, 2011. ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images
Two-year-old Shiniyo looks while bundled in her mothers arms while they stay at a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders. ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images
A Kenyan doctor looks at the IV drip on a child suffering from severe malnutrition at a clinic run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) at the Dadaab refugee camp on July 4, 2011. With a population of 370,000, Dadaab is the world's largest refugee camp even though it was built for just 90,000. According to Doctors Without Borders, the number of people seeking refugee keeps swelling and Dadaab will house 450,000 refugees by the end of the year, or twice the population of Geneva. With serious drought in the Horn of Africa, thousands of Somalis have arrived in recent weeks in search of food and water. ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images
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Captured: East Africa Drought
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yeah,I have heard about it and felt so sorry for them .Is Allah angry with them :(? Don't know why they have so many problems:natural disaster ,war etc etc .
BalasHapusIzdiher,
BalasHapusWhat's happening in Somalia is very very sad and no words can describe it.
I don't believe that natural disasters and famines happen because Allah is angry with us other wise we will all be domed and there are places and people are pure evil so why aren't they in such terrible situations. What's happening in Somalia is so sad and the result of human's actions and wars.
Jazak Allah Kahir,Wafa for explaining me :).
BalasHapusIzdiher,
BalasHapusWell dear, that's how i see the matter , thanks for accepting it :)