Water supplies are an ongoing crisis in many parts of the world, and just think what we could do to help if we weren’t off starting wars for oil:
As world attention focuses on the Darfur region of Sudan, Somalia is quietly disintegrating into Africa’s worst humanitarian emergency, experts say.
Last week, United Nations emergency coordinator John Holmes said that conditions in Somalia had eclipsed those in Darfur and Chad as the most pressing African humanitarian crisis. Malnutrition and disease are soaring here amid political insecurity and a string of natural disasters, including flooding and drought.
Jawhar had long been an island of stability and agricultural prosperity in southern Somalia. Now, the nation’s breadbasket requires food assistance for the first time since a nationwide famine from 1991 to 1993. Nearly 8,700 children here are at risk of starvation, according to UNICEF.
“Around here we’ve never seen this,” said Owliyo Moalim, 44, a mother of five, as she lined up Monday with hundreds of other women to receive a U.N. World Food Program distribution of corn, beans and oil.Her family used to harvest crops every three months. But consecutive floods have prevented harvesting since October 2005, she said.
Wonder when we’ll invade Canada in order to take over their water?