Hungry monkeys attack children as drought begins to starve humans and animals alike
dailystar.co.ukanimals from our village.“We packed our meagre possessions on the donkey cart and set out at midnight.”Xavier Joubert, Save the Children’s Country Director in Ethiopia, said: “Children – especially small children – are bearing the brunt of a harrowing and multifaceted crisis in Ethiopia.
A prolonged, expanding, and debilitating drought is grinding away at their resilience, already worn down by a gruelling conflict and two years of the Covid-19 pandemic.“Sadly, in 2022, the crisis in Ethiopia grew in complexity and scale.
In the south and the east, prolonged drought is devastating lives and livelihoods; in the north, millions of displaced families barely have access to food, health services, livelihoods; and in the southwest, a hidden conflict is displacing hundreds of thousands.“Families who have fled drought or conflict have left with very little, some only with their children and clothes on their backs.
Though some families are returning home, they find their houses, hospitals, and schools damaged or destroyed, and their livelihoods lost.”To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here..
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