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Internally displaced Somali women gather to collect water from a plastic pan after fleeing from drought stricken regions near a makeshift camp in Baidoa, west of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, March 26, 2017.
voanews.com - March 31, 2017
BURAO, SOMALIA — Deadly cholera is spreading through drought-ravaged Somalia as clean water sources dry up, a top aid official said, deepening a humanitarian crisis in a country that is on the verge of famine.
The Horn of Africa nation has recorded more than 18,000 cases of cholera so far this year, up from around 15,000 in all of 2016 and 5,000 in a normal year, Johan Heffinck, the Somalia head of EU Humanitarian Aid, said in an email on Thursday.
The current strain of the disease is unusually deadly, killing around 1 in 45 patients.
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Somalia - Drought Took Animals and Land, Hunger Taking Children
theguardian.com - by Tracy McVeigh - April 10, 2017
. . . “Drought didn’t come overnight. It was a build up of various factors,” says Babuma. “The rains failed in 2015, then the situation really became a concern in 2016. Now things have escalated. Now we have 6.2 million people across Somalia who are urgently in need of food, so at least one in two people in the whole country are affected.”
(READ COMPLETE ARTICLE - Drought took their animals and land – now hunger is taking Somalia's children)