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    East Africa's hunger crisis explained

    The carcasses of hundreds of dead sheep and goats litter the landscape in Somaliland, as pasture and water suplies disappear. Photo: Concern Worldwide.
    The carcasses of hundreds of dead sheep and goats litter the landscape in Somaliland, as pasture and water suplies disappear. Photo: Concern Worldwide.
    News6 April 2017Concern Worldwide

    Ten facts you should know about this growing humanitarian crisis.

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    Atiir collects firewood every day to make money to feed her family. Recurrent drought in Turkana, Kenya has made it her only means of survival. Photo: Gavin Douglas / Concern Worldwide.
    News
    19 September 2019

    Turkana: A documentary podcast from Concern

    This special one-off programme features the incredible stories of three remarkable women confronted by the impossible realities of climate change in northern Kenya.

    Ng’ikario Ekiru with her mother-in-law Nakode and three of her children, Aukot, Ekuam and Apua. The family from Turkana county in northern Kenya have lost almost their entire herd of goats to recurrent droughts and are relying on wild fruits for their survival.Photo: Gavin Douglas / Concern Worldwide.
    News
    14 August 2019

    Consequences of the climate crisis in northern Kenya

    Recurrent drought is having a devastating impact on pastoralist communities in northern Kenya. 

    Eng madey and his team inserting pipelines in the borehole. Banadir Hospital, Mogadishu. Photo: Feysal Mohaumd/ Concern Worldwide.
    News
    10 April 2019

    Crisis averted in a hospital in Somalia

    What happens when the sole water supply to a hospital fails? This is the story of how a hospital in Somalia narrowly averted crisis when its only water supply failed.

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