Drought has continued to grip East Africa at the start of 2026, pushing nearly 26 million into extreme hunger across Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, a recent Oxfam report found. But the crisis in the Horn of Africa runs far deeper than statistics. In my community, the Agaw in northern Ethiopia, families have arrived from the lowland regions of Afar and Oromia. Repeated crop failures and livestock losses had forced them to leave the rock of stabilit…
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