Drought puts millions on the brink of starvation in Somalia | DW News
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- Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2022
- The UN Climate summit ended in Egypt with a deal to provide funding for vulnerable countries as they suffer the impact of climate change - in what's known as "loss and damage."
But while the talks were going on, in Somalia people were paying the price for the climate crisis with their lives. The worst drought in 40 years has left millions on the brink of starvation.
DW correspondent Mariel Müller traveled to Baidoa - at the center of the hunger crisis. A warning: This report contains disturbing images.
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#Somalia #Drought #ClimateChange
It's not just about the climate. The impact of ongoing war, poor farming techniques, large families etc has all combined to create this situation.
The government has also been negligent in their duties.
So it's not about climate change then ? So why the loss and damage fund was needed ?
@@martins3885 note i said "not just about the climate"
Also over population which reduces fish, resources, increased pollution and everything else.
they barely have a goverment its nonexistent other than few cities around the capital
Not to sound crass, but there is far too many mouths to feed for Somalia. Same issue as other countries with extreme population growth.
6 children per woman. No no no ... dont even mention birth control..their women will get really mad.
This has been going on for eternity in Somalia... Look at all its developing neighbors. It's really disappointing and sad! 😥😥
I know it’s heartbreaking
They should stop fighting and operate as one democratic nation. War is the greatest obstacle to development and progress of a nation's people.
@@JoeyBlogs007 I agree
It's because america and west put embargo for GDP and doesn't want to let them use their own resources
The problem is . they don't have a family plan, each man has more than one wife and each woman has about 10 children. which makes the tragedy worse
the only problem africa has is hw!te people plundering their resources and sowing corruption
I think men has more than 1 wife is not the problem. Those men takes wife from someone else.
30+ years later we are still hearing the same old story from this country....
We are starving.
We have no water.
We have no education
We have no health care.......
30+ years and nothing has changed.
Nothing will change if they are not willing to change and improve their own country 😉
Blame them for natural disasters. What norrow minded person are you.
Do you even have a clue what The West has done and is doing to Somalia ? But I bet you cry for Ukraine while Joe Biden and former Presidents loot that country ! Do you have any clue on what's going on ?
Think you’re confusing Somali with Ethiopia. Ethiopia had a famine crisis before I was even born but it’s known through history
@@thandisilec835 Somalia has been having famines long before any living human was born, that is why humans adapted pastoralism in that region, as it is the best strategy of surviving the uncertainty inherent in that variable geographical setting
And since then they have many times over doubled their population, that will surely help.
Somalia has an average of 6 births per women !!!
Something is not right in that country.Where there is no wisdom,life sucks.
In 1960 the population of Somalia was 1 million ,but today it's 20 million .
I'm from Bulgaria. Around 1960 the population of Bulgaria was nine millions. Now it's six millions. Mostly because many people, especially young people, immigrate to the West. Too bad.
The problem is. they don't have a family plan, each man has more than one wife and each woman has about 10 children.which makes the tragedy worse
Why only begin your demographic companion from 1960? The entire earth has seen something like fourfold population increase in the last 100 years, all cause by very straight forward factors, like increased longevity and decreased mortality, because of modern medicine, more agricultural output thanks to the green revolution, all underpinned by more energy availability thanks to cheap fossil fuel
Water will be the most important concern for mankind. Without water, crops can't grow, and we can't eat. Farmers require water, for their crops to grow, and for their livestock to drink. All plants and animals require water to survive. Trees need ample water, because of it's too dry, they will not survive, and this increases forest fire risks.
Indoor farming, water technologies and medical training is what's needed, storing water for times like this would stop drought. We have the ability but without the profit motive it won't happen.
Drought? This is the new normal. Just as the Rhine and Danube drying up in Summer, killing commerce for several months a year.
1,000,000 Africans are born every ten days
So? Is it ok to watch 1/4th dying ? 😮
That's terrible 😨😨😨
Remember they are a minority
This breaks my heart, but the solution is perhaps information of contraception and family planning for the local ppl, and some climate funding initiatives for the western countries giving some short term relief for the area.
This is not a population issue but a climate one.
The solution is food cause its famine.
@@galeevgeorgiy7408 racist much?
@Brandon Liechti In case you haven’t been looking, the drought has wiped out everything. Look at the landscape. It is dust.
Guess what? Drought is slashing crop output in the US, China and EU as well as India and Argentina and more.
2023 will be a year of mass famine. In the first world food inflation will bring destitution to the West. I guess we sterilize the homeless and hungry now…
@Brandon Liechti rolls eyes. the funny thing is this discussion been made for decades and people like you never grasp how family size is a function of the realities of survival. large family size is a survival trait of poverty.
“wrong people” is enough of a dog whistle. hilarious
UNICEF says $1billion is needed for aid. That's $999million for the warlords and corrupt officials and $1million for the rest.
They all live in 🇪🇺.
That's what happened years ago with the funds of save the world appeal when Bob geldoff did the charity only a small amount went to food the rest went to the warlords
Why don't they channel the money to other international aid organisations on the ground instead of donating to the government?
@@JohnJuma Because the best case szenario if you dont bribe the warlords is that they will take the aid, worst case they kill the aid workers.
They often airdrop aid but so much gets Taken by militias they simply increase the drops so some eventually gets to the people
"Foreign aid is taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries."
Ron Paul.
This is the same story for 50 years. Find some actual news!!!
Im 31 years old . I remember somalia was in the news even in old romania aftet the colapse of the ussr. In 1994.1995. Somalia is always in hunger and famine. Its mostly cause of war corruption etc . The ocasional dry periods thats when you see the news. Also in the 60s somalia had 2.5 million people . Now they have like 18 million so almost 8 times more . Imagine if germany for example, went from 50 to 400 million people in 60 years . Which country what nature what biotop can sustain that ? Even with all the techonoly available.
Good. Hungry hordes can be very useful.
The whole of Africa's problem..... No production just reprocreating......
@@sonofafrica2710 But they are just humans like us, they have right to exist too.Germany can take at least few millions from Somalia, to share the burden of humanity and show good example.
@@suportbghelp4938 If you bring them here we wont save Somalia we will become Somalia
@@suportbghelp4938 they are humans, só they must be responsible! If they want the solutions from Europeans, why they fight for independence!? Local elites must pay now for that!!!
Stop having 15 kids a family
Very sad situation
They should make some more babies. It certainly will help.
Horrible. But those mother who make like 5/6 baby per average are criminal too. Why make baby when you can’t feed them
What somalia needs is family planning like why is their fertility rate 6.0 per woman and theyre living like this
Don’t breed them if you can’t feed them
nobody is going to help you when you get old, only your children will. If you have them.
@Brandon Liechti Somalia is not a woke society, it's a tribal society, if you shuns your old parents, you are sanctioned by the wider society
@Brandon Liechti Thats a western mindset
why is he german woman wearing a head scarf
Because she is not in Germany
WHY KEEP ON HAVING BABIES,IF YOU CAN NOT EVEN FEED YOUR SELF'S..
Because of lack of education and birth control for women.
@@sukn7091 This plus children are seen as a comodity. They become a worker in just a few years. It's not like they have a lot of options.
Drought is certainly a reason that has determined, but drought cannot be a sufficient reason when it comes to give account to the starvation of millions in Somalia. It happened before in the same Somalia and in the same horn of Africa.
Today's technologies allow more accurate forecast. And attentiveness to situations could have allowed the detection of signs of the consequences of drought. And the political will could allow proactive actions that prevent or ease the consequences of drought on people in a world full of millions agencies such oxfam, save the children, etc and in a world destruction and ruin follow by deprivation have been erected into universal maxims. Drought alone cannot explain the suffering of millions.
Post covid financial crisis and a lack of food to import due to the ukranie war, the food the somali government can buy is now more expensive since everyone else is buying at a higher price. It doesn’t matter if you can predict drought, when it hits, you wont be able to feed the people.
@@krto7663 To what extent does it make sense to you that a whole continent is said to be affected by food shortage due a war very far away? God in his mercy has blessed with arable lands. And food security is one of the core objectives of the continental Institution called the African Union at its creation in 1963. Why famine, hunger must be the deadly miseries generations must make their's?
When there are all these unacceptable miseries undressed and at the same time the political leaders are desperate about the voice of Africa at international Institutions saying the UN must be reformed, Africa must have seats at UN Security Council, etc the issue becomes that of a definition of priorities.
@@clementgavi7290 By that they mean more free money ?:)
@@vladnickul What do you mean by 'they'?
@@clementgavi7290 African countries in the UN.
*Somalia🇸🇴 have border disputes with Ethiopia.*
make border agreement & peace!
What does climate change have to do with this? It's not like when the temparature is a bit lower, it's all fine and dandy all of the sudden. The whole Somali system is broken, from agriculture to education to infrastructure to security to employment. Climate change... what an easy excuse.
“We have deserts…we just don’t live in them”- Bobcat Goldwaith
I wonder what happened 40 years ago when the other drought happened. Is it similar to now?
Maybe the population quadrupling, and probably doubling again by 2050.
Not the drought. A failure of human systems and people to act in advance and during the crisis.
Is the problem the drought or the population increasing from 2.5 million in 1960 to 17 million now? What could be the real problem here? and the solution is not a doubling of the population (to over 30 mil) by 2050 but that is what they are going for.
The problem about your statistics is they are wrong, in Africa sources of polution surpass 30%, this is localized.
Check satelite !
Interesting map. North america is surprisingly clean.
Population needs to be in balance with jobs, resources, nature and the environment. Having a bigger population in any country than the country can support makes no sense. Access to food, water, shelter, energy and jobs should guide population levels. The worlds population is still expected to add another billion people to feed, clothe and produce pollution. Humans are crowding out all other species of plants and animals. Education and birth control are key to reducing poverty and hunger. Having a child that you can not provide for yourself is cruel and irresponsible. We need solutions not just sympathy. Endless population growth is not sustainable on a finite planet. Every country needs to "TRY" to be more self sufficient. When there are not enough resources to sustain a population something has to give. Countries need to focus on quality of life for their citizens and not just quantity of life for cheap labor. Why import fossil fuels when wind and solar energy can be produced locally and solar energy can power electric vehicles. We need solutions not just sympathy.
This was needed for the world 🌎 to head, DW once again 🙏🏽😔🌹
Weren't they already on the brink like a year ago?
High tax rates put millions on the brink in all Europe too.
So sad 😞😥 my heart goes out to all the sick babies and worried mama's. Damn
Ms Mathai didn't mention civil war and any corruption? Only climate change? That may leave potential donors cynical, unfortunately.
Bring them democracy and MacDonalds ! ! !
Somalia has been a dessert for thousands of years. Show the core samples.
Praying is not going to help, humanity never learns. Sad times.
Where are all your trees? Looks over grazed.
we can not feed ourselfs so lets make a family with twelf kids. maybe thats helping?
i would bet on that the "losses and damages" for a small city in USA or Europe hit by a tornado will receive more money than a whole country where half a million people die.
🙏🏿
Regarding climate change of COP27 Summits caused by emission raise and or global warming or it called human eror, so the victim can accuse a compensatie of fund "loss and damage".
The real fact of Somalia is Disaster of starving likely human eror but in this case, eror caused by Somalia's government can't tackle and handle their peoples, no health and wealth programs. Who country will pay a compensation of "loss and damage" none, maybe the UNHCR, WHO, FAO or any body else
Hope the aid doesn't get into the private pockets of Somalia's politicians and their cronies.
Extreme poverty, exploitation, and corrupted governments and lack of contraceptions plus russian terrorism = catastrophe.
Could the solution be solar powered desalination? They would need an enormous amount, but if rain is too unreliable...
Somalia has gone through droughts before and will have them again. Before industry you
had climate change.
The weather and climate is not a static thing.
I'm a polio victim
They should have more people so they can build irrigation.
humans raise twice the amount of food needed to feed every human on earth .production is not whats wrong.
The mongols caused a lot of loss and damage in Asia several hundred years ago. Will Mongolia reimburse my family for what they did to my great great great great grandparents ?
The Mongol rise coincided with drought and climate change in the 1180s, Maybe a new Genghis Khan will arise from that part of the world
Thanks China🇨🇳 for continued
- building more and more *coal-fired power plants,* and
- burning more and more *fossil fuel.*
God bless 🙌 the children and people of samolia...I hope and pray 🙏 that you get the much needed help and aid....you are in my prayers 🙏
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for life. *NO CASH FOR CLIMATE CHANGE HELP.*
At what time has Africa as a continent not been subject to scarcity. Is that a modern effect? Is it a result of European imperialism? Is it the result of religious ruling and/or superstition? Since when was Africa not able to govern itself anymore but rely on outside assistance. (i mean .. not being able to deal and solve its problems, no matter if they were caused by itself or by outside factors)
The thing that causes perpetual poverty is corruption in their government and complacency among the people. They have the resources to thrive.
Progressive African leaders are asking themselves the same questions. One answer is foreign aid that always come to the rescue. It takes incentives and responsability away from the leaders, who pocket money and resources for their own sake. Its corruption on the highest level, and the war-lords recieve a never ending flow of foreign aid. Somalia once was a modern state. Free education,free healthcare for all. Woman dident wear scarfs. Well, that was until the Yankees crushed the system because ´socialism´ , and according to the U.S. we cant have that 😵
@@independentvoter8710 corrupção ? Pelo amor né
The 🌊 disappeared.
Understand ?
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W a t e r
Water
You know what that is ?
Water
@@davidt6376 I'm responding to the comment addressing Africa as a whole. It's a very diverse continent with a lot of potential for thriving.
They should restrict their births.
question if the millions of people in somalia suffering from drought suddenly die does that mean less people suffering from drought. Cough military strike, cough small virus
Think you got it hard a pack of smokes is 10$ here
Smoking = lung cancer Stop smoking and save $80/week to buy food for starving people in your own country.
That baby is dying, it does not want a cigarette!
4:55
How should it work? 🤔 well, it's not rocket science
GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU!!!🙏💖🙏🇪🇸
What do you mean? I think they need real help from real people
@@JerryMetal
This is the birth pain of Jesus Christ. Worse events will occur accoding to those verses.
They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God( Revelation 16:9
Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up( Revelation 16:12
and more, you should read it
@@JerryMetal I love the hamster in your profile picture
@@MuromachiLines What I always wonder about the end times; will it happen? Or can we prevent it? If we can't prevent it we should stop helping people because it will only delay the horrible things that are suppose to happen. Just stop helping other people, let virusses roam free, stop flood prevention, just LET IT RIP! Because it is written, right?
@@MiSt3300 aahw thanks I will let him know after he is finished with the corn pellet ^-^
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Coming to a location near you!
While people dying of drought some are dying in some other countries because of too much water 💧 🙃 God have mercy on your children all over the world 🌎 😪 🙏
Unconditional right to stop our own life whenever we want for all adults, my body my choice.
So what abou say non vegetarian peoples
To help solve the climate problem the United States will print a whole bunch of money and give it to some countries when they feel like it.
And if you want the recipe for the cop 27 bacon wrapped scallop sushi just ask.
Somalia was a rich country with leading position in Africa, they helped so many African countries to get independent from the colonialists back in the 60s an 70s Somalia launched a big anti colonists campaign in Africa therefore the western power destroyed an upto this day they keep making obstacles to keep them from security n prosperity
Such is life
8:35
Well... it's a shame seeing the aftermath in these times.
the science warned the people almost a quarter century ago. 😕
How can they pretend they could survive on Mars if they can't even care for their own here?
Could they create a means to generate building material on the moon and clean drinking water? But not figure out how to do it on earth. 😬😭
That's exactly what history says .
Human extinction was one of the hardest things to remember 😪 💔
Stop having so many kids 🤣
Hi
And red horses
Jesus said
" The end is not yet"
Prey to Allah, this will help.
I’d like to help. I’m all for ppl staying in their countries but this is so sad, wish my country could help and I hate seeing children and women suffer😢
Children, yes. I couldn't care less about women.
The Americans tried that once. It went badly for them. It needs to be solved by Africa itself. Like the EU, Africa needs to unite and become the United African States.
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y bother , just pray god 5 times a day
Somalia Is so rich and good but same reporters and government agencies want to earn money and not give them but Allah will help them as soon as he want.
he doesn't want to
All religion has done is divide people and make sure disasters like this happen.
Had Allah existed he would have helped Somalia a long time ago
And maybe the war isn’t helping? Playing Empire games is bad for the planet.
Why do they not use their chem trail plains there? It is now common knowledge they have been changing the weather since the 60s
Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.🐦🕊
repartan anticonceptivos en Somalia, no alimentos.
Their god won't allow the people to use them. Religion is a massive problem.
Poor Somali’s don’t have democrats to save them and change the weather for them :(
👆👆👆👆👆👆👆PS
Very few people care
Lol
I suspect when millions and millions of broken and disillusioned citizens of countries such as Somalia, who know full well that voluntary financial contributions from the rich world to offset the climate change triggered by rich world activity will be avoided just like these these oligarchical cliques who rule out world, avoid tax in their own countries. The people of badly climate affected countries will do the obvious thing to save themselves. They will move North, just as they are already doing. COP cannot control millions of people brought to hardship and starvation. Removing 'unfettered' capitalism is the key to reversing this process.
If there was an equal or worse drought 40 years ago, then it is not possible to attribute today's drought to climate change.
Book of revelation suggests droughts will not end.
But “Loss and Damage” Fund is biblically right way to respond to the beginning of the great tribulation
Have some respect to the people suffering and stop spreading your dumb superstitions.
Earth has hot and cold cycles. With or without fossil fuel, we'd still be warming up as we get closer to the sun.
All the European countries can give billions of dollars of help to Ukraine ,Qatar can use 217 billion Dollar for fifa world cup but can even donate some money to poor people like this
We already tried to help them we even did send troops to protect the aid and aid workers but nothing changed since then. Somalia is a failed state and it will stay that way until the poeple of Somalia figure out a solution to there infighting.
Giving food is one thing. Creating technology to mitigate the drought is what's needed and the willingness of rich countries to donate that technology is what will matter to the Somalians and other African countries.
@@Marc_Gagne Doesnt work that way first you need security but for that it needs a stronger central government that can create order. But you wont get a stronger gov because every tribe and ethnic group is only out for themself and distrusst the others. So now they are stuck in a loop of violance and famin where they are adicted to forign aid.
@@Marc_Gagne that's true
But it's really sad to see that world has so much wealth still people has to suffer like this in this 21st century
Ukraine is actually putting their aid to good use. Qatar is using their own money. But everytime we try to donate to countries like somalia, the money ends up with the corrupt officials or warlords. No, enough is enough. Let them sort it out themselves.
As a white woman i would love to go there and pick /choose a free child to bring home and raise them like angelina jolie...then i pose for photos on facebook and have strangers gush at me when i tell them the story. I really enjoy these feelings i get whenever i think about my good actions. I sob just thinking of my good intentions , my sense of generosity is so great...i am really something.
Are they going to blame russia as well for the weather ?
Allah is the best planner
Migration is the most optimal survival strategy to adapt in the face of a drought
All Somalians are welcome in the United Kingdom. We have cold weather here and we need workers!
Racists should be in heaven watching this...
I guess the 60 dislikes are from them...