Climate change contributed greatly to the drought situation, he said, and was causing the poorer populations in Africa to suffer the most.
"I think it is a call for the globe as a whole to address the issue of climate change, because it affects a lot of people not only in Africa, but on other continents as well," explained Kenya's Turkana region's county secretary for disaster management and drought, Jeremiah Namuya.
Somalia's Minister for Agriculture Ahmed Madobe Nunow warned, "Some pockets of the country are on the brink of famine, unless we do something about it immediately." According to Madobe Nunow, Somalia is on the verge of a second famine, after the 2010-2012 crisis which according to the UN claimed more than a quarter of a million lives, half of them children.
Workneh Gebeyehu, the executive secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an organization for regional development, recently said that more than 50 million IGAD citizens in member states Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Djibouti, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Sudan are food insecure.
East Africa's drought threatens millions with starvation – DW – 10/24/2022
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