Drought across Somalia severe

The drought is nothing compared to the great African rift which will in time split the continent allowing the Red Sea to rush in hundreds of miles. Next ten years or one hundred but its inevitable

Or as it's called in Somalia "Tuesday".

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/press/release.cfm?id=4994&cat=press-rel...

Refugees leaving due to severe drought are now being refused entrance to camps in Kenya. As it is the living conditions are already inhumane. This is a huge environmental/ humanitarianan/ security crisis, and it is happening NOW. It has nothing to do with links about anything that happened in 1989 or the 1960s. Real people are now in danger due to this drought in addition to the strife they have already been facing without a functioning government. It is time to focus on the crisis at hand today and to understand what we are up against in many places in our world where drought is now becoming more severe and prolonged. This is also in relation to security a question we will have to address should areas of this world become uninhabitable. Where would millions of people go, and what happens when where they go rejects them. This isn't just about charts, graphs, and living in your own bubble. This is about the survival of HUMANITY.

http://cc.rsoe.hu/?pageid=eread&id=150

Updated climate report on Somalia:

Event Report
Database ID: CCDB-150/7-SOM
Date of Event: 2011-01-22
Date of Log: 2011-01-22
Continent: Africa
Country: Somalia
State/Province:
Area: Statewide
Location:
Severity Level: Hight
Source: UN News Center

The drought is worsening in many parts of strife-torn Somalia, with herders reported to be moving into Mogadishu, the capital, with their livestock for the first time ever due to lack of pasture and water, the United Nations reported today. In the south-western Gedo region, where the situation is reportedly critical, water, food and medical aid are said to be the priority needs for the drought-affected population, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. The Horn of Africa nation, which has not had a functioning central government since 1991 and has been torn apart by decades of conflict and factional strife, is already facing a dire humanitarian crisis in which 3.2 million people, more than 40 per cent of the population, is in need of aid. According to field and media reports, many people are arriving on the outskirts of Mogadishu every day, mainly from Middle and Lower Shabelle regions. The exact number of those displaced by the drought is not yet available but recent UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reports put the number at 12,000 at least. Some families have started selling their assets to get money for transport to refugee camps in neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia. An inter-agency assessment is to be conducted in the southwest part of Mogadishu to assess humanitarian needs, including the number of people affected and priority areas of response. In response to the increased needs for both the host community and people displaced by drought as well as continued conflicts in the central regions, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has scaled up its aid, adding 105,400 additional displaced and nearly 20,000 new beneficiaries from host communities for the January food distribution. WFP is currently targeting some 2.5 million people for food aid across Somalia, although 625,000 of those are in areas where operations are currently suspended due to pressure from Al-Shabaab Islamist militants in the south. In 2009, WFP reached 3.3 million people in Somalia with food supplies.

Sahel
The Sahel covers parts of the countries of Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, **Somalia**, Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Droughts in that area are well documented throughout history. Today's drought, though a disastrous situation, should not be seen as anything other than a natural event. To blame man's actions (with respect to CO2) on this latest drought is nothing more than a desperate attempt to prop-up the already failed AGW theory.

"Nevertheless, drought did occur (Cissoko 1968). A major drought apparently occurred in the 1680s. It also appears that droughts at least as severe as that of 1968 occurred in the Sahel from the mid-1730s to the mid-1750s and again in the 1820s and 1830s-persisting for 12-15 years in many areas. The latter drought was continental in extent. Lake Chad was partially desiccated, and signs of increasing aridity appeared throughout much of southern Africa. Generally dry conditions prevailed during most of the period from around 1790 to 1850. Less significant droughts occurred in the 1640s, 1710s, and 1810s (Nicholson 1980). " - greenstone.org

As I stated below, climate variations will cause swings in certain conditions, and these changes will be experienced within peoples' lifetimes, but to take that as proof that man is to blame is grasping at straws.

http://www.kabissa.org/blog/impacts-climate-change-and-absence-somalis

Climate change impacts in Somalia

"Almost, two decades Somalia has not had a central government and Somalis are under violent behaviour since the collabse of Siad Barre regime in 1991. Somalia has experienced dramatic environmental shifts following two decades of insecurity and chaos in the country. The protracted crisis has led to an unsustainable use of the country’s resources. Corrupt businessmen, warlords, and other violent radical groups, with the help of external spoilers, have contributed to deforestation and depletion of Somalia wildlife resources.

Today the entire people in this world are fighting to solve the climate change and most of international and regional climate campaigners are busy how it can be easy to solve without doing critical approach.

However, In 2007 the climate has been particularly harsh in Somalia:

first, the heavy rains at parts in the caused flooding in central Somalia as well as the droughts in the other parties caused a lot of problems that affected the people and the animals. But the rainy season itself was a disappointment, and water shortage made it impossible to replenish the reservoirs. Cereal production this year of 2009 is at 30% of the average for the last decade.

Secondly, clashes between Islamist-led insurgents and Somalia government along with AMISOM forces pushed many Somalis to flee their homes and Some displaced persons in camps are victims of the December 2004 tsunami who lost their fishing boats-and came to towns inland hoping for help.

Their villages and communities were almost 5,000 kilometres from the epicentre of the earthquake that caused the tsunami, and yet they were not spared.

The cutting of trees and the making of charcoal have led to deforestation and desertification and, as a result, made the country more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The lives and livelihoods of Somalia farmers and of the local communities have been seriously affected by the impacts of the climate change.

It is also believed, that toxic wastes are being dumped into the unprotected Somali territorial waters. Dead fish and closed barrels with chemical contents have been seen floating over the Somali territorial waters.

The impacts of the climate change are already causing coastal erosion and possibly a rise in the level of Somalia seas. The lives and livelihoods of Somali fishermen along Somalia 3333-km coast are being seriously jeopardized.

Somalia, coastal infrastructures are being affected. The displacement of people and the proliferation of piracy constitute a very serious dilemma for a country that is trying hard to bail itself out of the predicament that has lasted for a long time.

Somalia continues to witness extreme weather events, changes in weather patterns, floods and droughts, and the vanishing of its biodiversity. Agricultural production, food security and access to water resources are being severely compromised by climate change. Human health is also impacted by the climate change. Malaria and other vector-borne diseases are now prevalent in areas that were not previously endemic. This is indicative of the fact that the impacts of climate change have altered the ecology of the vectors that transmit certain virulent pathogens that cause some of the most debilitating diseases in the country."
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I trust the words of those who live in these areas over those who get paid to lie about it .