A body inside a barrel was found over the weekend on the newly exposed bottom of Nevada’s Lake Mead as drought depletes of the largest U.S. reservoirs.
DUBAI: Across Iraq, water sources that have been taken for granted and relied upon throughout centuries of hardship, chaos and drought are under threat. So too, as a result, are the livelihoods of many people in the country who find themselves facing unprecedented challenges in accessing one of life’s essential resources.
today, the mauritian government, in a very bold some would say provocative move, has come here under its own steam, insisting that it has the right and exercising its right to visit what it considers its own territory. this is a really important moment in the tug of war between britain and mauritius over these incredibly isolated but strategically very important islands. mauritius insisting they are ours, and you can hear there olivier bancoult, who has campaigned for so long in british courts for his right to return to live permanently on these islands, getting very angry, very worked up, criticising the british government, saying it is long overdue that britain renounced its sovereignty and allow them to return to live here. andrew harding with that report. somalia is experiencing its worst drought crisis in a decade. according to the charity save the children, 70% of households do not have enough food to eat.
consecutive years have been decimated by desert locusts. translation: our kids have not been to school for some time now. - it s impossible for us to send the children to school without food and water. also, we don t have any money to pay the school fees. somalia has experienced three major drought crises since 2011. this year, latest food security projections suggest that 4.6 million somalis will face crisis to emergency level food insecurity in the next few months. we were focused for a below average march to may season. we re extremely concerned. it is uncertain how people will survive there. - the next two to three months are going to be critical. - |and early action is indeed neededj to prevent a humanitarian disaster across the horn of africa. in the 2011 drought crisis,
it is uncertain how people will survive there. - the next two to three months are going to be critical. - and early action is - indeed needed to prevent a humanitarian disaster. across the horn of africa. in the 2011 drought crisis, when the un declared a famine in somalia, 3.7 million people faced crisis levels of food insecurity. a slow global response to the early warnings of the famine led to at least 260,000 people, half of them under the age of five, dying from hunger and related conditions across the horn of africa. save the children estimates that this time, over $1.5 billion us is needed to give vulnerable children and their families across somalia enough food, health care, education and water to get through this crisis. merchuma, bbc news. a ship sent by the government of mauritius has arrived