The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has disclosed that at least 1.5 million livestock died across drought-affected parts of Ethiopia.
“Many regions in Ethiopia are currently experiencing one of the most severe La Nina-induced droughts in recent decades.
More than eight million people are acutely food insecure, and 1.5 million livestock have died due to drought which has destroyed people’s livelihood,” the UN migration agency said in its latest drought situation response report.
“Nearly 300,000 drought-affected people have migrated in search of water, pasture, or assistance,” the IOM report disclosed.
The UN migration agency said it was providing in-kind emergency shelter, essential non-food household items, cash-for-rent, and construction of emergency shelters to displaced drought-affected populations and host communities.
It also said it was providing water and sanitation-related services, as well as delivering comprehensive life-saving primary healthcare and nutrition services.
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May this fate befall all the cows that those Fulani herdsmen brought to southern Nigeria to destroy our crops’