Drought returns to the Somali Region as rains fail a fourth season
Aid agencies warn of a slow-onset crisis at a moment when donor attention is elsewhere.
Kaltun Farah·Gode·
Gode — The riverbeds south of Gode were dust again this month. A fourth failed rainy season has driven pastoralist families toward roadside settlements, and humanitarian workers say food pipelines are thinner than in previous cycles.
Climate scientists link the pattern to a shifting Indian Ocean dipole, but the immediate story on the ground is livestock loss and rising school dropouts.