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Hargeisa(ANN)-On the horn of Africa in eastern Somaliland, crops have turned to dust and animal skeletons litter the landscape. It’s a grim reminder of the severe drought now threatening as many as 20 million people.
CTV’s Melanie Nagy is on the ground in the self-declared independent region of Somalia which, along with parts of Nigeria, Yemen and South Sudan, is facing what the UN calls the largest humanitarian crisis since it was founded in 1945.
Nomadic farmer Farah Mohamed, 71, showed off the bones of dozens of goats that have already died since the rains stopped.
lost most of my livestock, my livelihood,” Mohamed said. “We are barely getting by.”
Mohamed called the drought “the worst I have ever seen.”
Source: http://www.ctvnews.ca/