People are being displaced by the impacts of climate change — how can cities cope with newcomers?
This article originally was published on Ensia. When the rains never arrived in the East African nation of Somalia in 2016, nor in 2017, hundreds of thousands of rural residents were forced to abandon their lands and livelihoods due to one of the most severe droughts in decades. Then, in 2019, from September to December, heavy rains led to severe flooding there, displacing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in rural areas and towns in the districts of Belet Weyne, Baardheere and Berdale. These climate migrants traversed barren and dusty landscapes, or traveled through torrential...
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