El Niño 2026-2027 threatens more than 162 million children in Eastern and Southern Africa, where UNICEF anticipates a dangerous combination of droughts, floods and extreme heat that can exacerbate malnutrition, epidemics, displacements and school dropouts.
El Niño 2026-2027 threatens more than 162 million children in Eastern and Southern Africa, where UNICEF anticipates a dangerous combination of droughts, floods and extreme heat that can exacerbate malnutrition, epidemics, displacements and school dropouts.
Mogadishu – For months there has been drought in the Horn of Africa, in the coming weeks heavy floods are expected with the weather phenomenon El Niño. In Somalia, where the drought has brought in only about one fifth of the usual harvest and the number of severely malnourished children is taking on threatening proportions, aid organizations are expecting...