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Climate change fuels fresh community clashes in Somalia

By Mohamed Sheikh Nor

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Posted on September 1, 2023 09:54

Hawa Mohamed Isack (R), 60, drinks water at a distribution point at Muuri camp, one of the 500 camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in town, in Baidoa, Somalia on February 13, 2022.
Hawa Mohamed Isack (R), 60, drinks water at a distribution point at Muuri camp, one of the 500 camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in town, in Baidoa, Somalia on February 13, 2022. (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP)

Central Somali state of Galmudug is at the epicentre of climate-induced upheaval in the Horn of Africa where water scarcity threatens herders and villages.

The pastoral community of central Somalia’s Galmudug state is getting pulled ever deeper into a complex web of conflict as a result of climate change.

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