It might not be obvious to many people that the Horn of Africa is in dire straits. Drought and armed conflict have conspired to push millions of people to the edge of certain death…
Ethiopia and Somalia are grappling with systematic violence, drought, hunger and sexual violence, War in Africa should not be normalised. Until now, Tigray has been under a blockade, and could not receive aid. As the adults struggle to cope, children are getting stunted by undernutrition and mothers are losing their newborns to ill health and hunger.
In Somalia, critics of the unrelenting violence and human rights violations are becoming victims of targeted killings from both sides, Al-Shabab extremists in Somalia are getting “bolder” in their attacks and have increased using suicide bombers wearing homemade explosives in what security experts call a “change in tactics.”
