Pambazuka News

Somalia: Villages abandoned as drought bakes Puntland

2008-04-18

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/environment/47514

Squatting in the scorching sun, Adan Hassan Mahamud pointed to the parched landscape around Hamure village, 280km east of Bosasso in the self-declared autonomous Somali republic of Puntland. "I have seen droughts but nothing like this in 12 years," Mahamud, 80, said. "Many in the community have lost a large number of livestock - their only means of livelihood."