The UN says severe drought now affects 4.6 million people in Somalia, displacing 120,000 and forcing 75,000 students from school, as a major funding gap limits humanitarian aid.
Somalia’s environment minister visited Galmudug’s Bud-bud town to assess climate damage, where advancing sand dunes are burying homes and displacing residents, urging urgent reforestation and joint environmental action.
Dhinowdo, once a bustling coastal town home to over 3,000 families, is now facing a slow-moving natural disaster that is swallowing the community and its environment. Strong, shifting sand carried by harsh winds has overtaken homes, wells, schools, and even the town’s health center.
