Thursday, November 11, 2010

Climate Change: Drought in Ethiopia

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“A boy stands in a dried up pond near Moyale in the lowlands of Ethiopia's Oromiya zone. A devastating drought has left an estimated 737,000 Ethiopians struggling to survive without access to clean water. Beyond Ethiopia, the drought has spread out to affect more than 8.3 million people, including 1.2 million children aged under five, across the Horn of Africa.”


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“One of thousands of goat carcasses at Goraye in Oromiya region.”


Photo credit: Andrew Heavens, Flickr