For The Daily Telegraph
Rich countries should not make the same mistake in the Horn of Africa and East Africa, as it did with Ethiopia in the mid-eighties of the last century. Have reacted with these countries, then, the famine caused by the lack of rainfall and drought very slow. Today, there is a danger that the pattern is the same in Djibouti, and parts of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, where there are 10 million people in need of help after the outbreak of the worst drought in 60 years.
Speaking in Nairobi, finally, it was Andrew Mitchell, British International Development Minister is right in urging European countries to make more effort in this regard. The British government has pledged more than £ 52 million pounds of emergency aid, where the response of individuals to appeal to the Committee on Disaster and Emergency prominent as usual, by providing $ 15 million was collected during the first week alone.
If not follow the example of Britain in this regard, the emergency situation experienced by Africa will now become a widespread famine.
The fluctuations occurring in the climate beyond human control. But its effects are exacerbated because of lack of development in the affected areas, as is the case in Somalia, because of the chaos that spread in that country over the past twenty years. The extreme poverty and political unrest (as was the case during the civil war in Ethiopia during the eighties), a lethal combination.
And stability is a precondition for investment in water extraction and storage, as well as investment in the drought-resistant crops that would have enabled the nomads and residents not to rely too much on climatic conditions.
The challenge is to respond quickly to the outside world that need urgent. In the long term, governments should in that region, particularly in Somalia, to increase funding for marginal areas neglected.
The city of «Dadaab» in northern Kenya, more than just a city like a refugee camp. It extends for a distance of 30 miles, and could reach a population of close to half a million people. The city is the fastest growing cities in the African population.
And drought and famine in the Horn of Africa would displace people who are starving and exhausted hundreds of miles around this arid outpost in northern Kenya, hoping to find food, medicine and water. Has our «Daily Telegraph» throughout the entire week by the transfer of these scenes disturbing, a crisis that prompted international agencies to declare a state of emergency and ask for money.
There are not enough tents for all newcomers to the camp. The refugees built temporary shelters of tree branches and plastic scraps. While surrounded by harsh weather conditions, is in the high winds that raise dust clouds Red suffocating. And the strewn on the ground that had not dry the rain falls for two years, the bodies of dead animals, which turned the dry grasslands to the graves of those corpses.
Rich countries should not make the same mistake in the Horn of Africa and East Africa, as it did with Ethiopia in the mid-eighties of the last century. Have reacted with these countries, then, the famine caused by the lack of rainfall and drought very slow. Today, there is a danger that the pattern is the same in Djibouti, and parts of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, where there are 10 million people in need of help after the outbreak of the worst drought in 60 years.
Speaking in Nairobi, finally, it was Andrew Mitchell, British International Development Minister is right in urging European countries to make more effort in this regard. The British government has pledged more than £ 52 million pounds of emergency aid, where the response of individuals to appeal to the Committee on Disaster and Emergency prominent as usual, by providing $ 15 million was collected during the first week alone.
If not follow the example of Britain in this regard, the emergency situation experienced by Africa will now become a widespread famine.
The fluctuations occurring in the climate beyond human control. But its effects are exacerbated because of lack of development in the affected areas, as is the case in Somalia, because of the chaos that spread in that country over the past twenty years. The extreme poverty and political unrest (as was the case during the civil war in Ethiopia during the eighties), a lethal combination.
And stability is a precondition for investment in water extraction and storage, as well as investment in the drought-resistant crops that would have enabled the nomads and residents not to rely too much on climatic conditions.
The challenge is to respond quickly to the outside world that need urgent. In the long term, governments should in that region, particularly in Somalia, to increase funding for marginal areas neglected.
The city of «Dadaab» in northern Kenya, more than just a city like a refugee camp. It extends for a distance of 30 miles, and could reach a population of close to half a million people. The city is the fastest growing cities in the African population.
And drought and famine in the Horn of Africa would displace people who are starving and exhausted hundreds of miles around this arid outpost in northern Kenya, hoping to find food, medicine and water. Has our «Daily Telegraph» throughout the entire week by the transfer of these scenes disturbing, a crisis that prompted international agencies to declare a state of emergency and ask for money.
There are not enough tents for all newcomers to the camp. The refugees built temporary shelters of tree branches and plastic scraps. While surrounded by harsh weather conditions, is in the high winds that raise dust clouds Red suffocating. And the strewn on the ground that had not dry the rain falls for two years, the bodies of dead animals, which turned the dry grasslands to the graves of those corpses.
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