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01 November 2024

Amidst climate crisis, education restores a girl’s hope in Ethiopia

Climate change has a wide-ranging impact on Education. In the Southern Ethiopia region, frequent droughts followed by seasonal floods are disrupting the lives and livelihoods of the communities. Children have been displaced from their homes, and schools are often swamped with floodwaters leaving students without a...

The drought is driving up cases of child hunger and malnutrition in Borena.

For the past three years, unrelenting drought has taken a devastating toll on children and their families in Borena Zone, Ethiopia. Lack of food and water has forced thousands of people to abandon their homes. According to the zone’s multi-agency rapid assessment report, scarcity of livestock feed and water has c...

01 February 2022

Prolonged drought pushing families in Ethiopia to the brink

ADDIS ABABA, 1 February 2022 – Three consecutive failed rainy seasons have brought on severe drought in Ethiopia’s lowland regions of Afar, Oromia, the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ (SNNPR) and Somali regions drying up water wells, killing livestock and crops and pushing hundreds of thousands of ch...

05 January 2022

Drought and climate change pushing communities to the brink

Climate change and its resulting effect of enormous land degradation and significant depletion of pasture in Borena zone is pushing pastoralist communities to the brink. Erratic Gena (main season) rains coupled with failed Hagayya (short season) rains forced many to move far from the usual migration routes. Livest...

05 January 2022

Hagayya rain failed, the Ellas dried up and Bona strikes again

Dubuluk, Borena Zone, Ethiopia 9 Dec 2021 – “I lost 27 cows, I don’t know how we are going to survive,” says Bekeri Huqqa, mother of 6 children, while helping her weak and bony calf to stand on its feet. The small village of Lafto in Dubuluk woreda (district) of the Borena zone is almost deserted. Only a few wom...