The United Nations warn about the “quiet killer”: the last drought “Slow global disaster”
Somalia before continental Europe in the last two years has observed some of the most destructive droughts in the recorded history, which have been exacerbated by climate change, according to the United Nations.
The report describes the drought as “a silent killer … penetrated, exhausts resources and slowly destroys people,” and said that he aggravated problems such as poverty and collapse of ecosystems, according to BBC.
The report emphasized antiquities in Africa, Mediterranean, Latin America and Southeast Asia, including 4.4 million people in Somalia, faced with the lack of food security at the crisis level in the beginning of this year.
The report recommends the government to prepare for a “new natural situation” through measures that include stronger early warning systems.
“This is a global catastrophe that moves slowly, and this is the worst that I saw when I saw,” said Dr. Mark Sphoboda, co -author and director of the American National Center for reducing the drought.
He added: “This report emphasizes the need for systematic monitoring of how drought affects people’s lives, lifestyle and integrity of environmental systems, on which we all dependent.”
The “drought around the world” report determines the most affected areas from 2023 to 2025.
During this period, the influence of global warming for climate change was aggravated by the Nyneo phenomenon, a natural climatic that affects global weather models.
The phenomenon of nyienne occurs when surface waters in the east and in the middle of the Pacific Pacific Ocean become unusual warm.
This often leads to more dry conditions in areas such as South Africa, units of Southeast Asia, South America and Southeast Australia.
In addition, human pressure, such as the use of irrigation in agriculture, imposed pressure on water resources.
Hunger
By January 2023, the Rog Africa struck the worst drought in 70 years as a result of rain in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.
This happened after the death of about 43,000 people in Somalia in 2022 from the hunger associated with the drought.
African wild nature also influenced river mares in Botswan in dry rivers, and elephants were executed in Zimbabwe and Namibia to feed hungry societies and prevent overflow.
The report emphasizes how drought affects the most vulnerable people in the world, including women, with often for a long time on society.
For his part, Dr. Kelly Helm Smith, the author of the report, said: “Dry is not just a climatic phenomenon, but rather it can be a state of social, economic and environmental emergency. The question is not whether it will be again, but whether we will be more wishing next time. ”
