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Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Somalia, Kenya, and now Ethiopia have raised the alarm about the latest climate shock to a fragile region traversed by herders and others trying to keep their animals, and themselves, alive.<\/p>\n

In Ethiopia\u2019s Somali region, people have seen the failures of what should have been three straight rainy seasons. Droughts come and go over the years, but one resident told a visiting team with the United Nations children\u2019s agency that she and her seven children have never seen one like this.<\/p>\n

The government distributed food and fodder during the last drought five years ago, she said. This time, \u201cwe don\u2019t have enough food for our family.\u201d More than 6 million people in Ethiopia are expected to need urgent humanitarian aid by mid-March, UNICEF said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

And in neighboring Somalia more than 7 million people need urgent help, the Somali NGO Consortium said in a separate statement, pleading with international donors to give much more.<\/p>\n

This could be the region\u2019s worst drought in 40 years, the consortium said. UNICEF estimates that more than 150,000 children in such areas of Ethiopia have dropped out of school to help fetch scarce water and handle other chores.<\/p>\n

UNICEF\u2019s Ethiopia representative told a U.N. briefing in Geneva by videoconference on Tuesday that some water sources were drying up or already dry, and pointed to the need to rehabilitate wells, drill boreholes and get water to health and nutrition systems.<\/p>\n

He said the Ethiopian government\u2019s conflict with fighters from the country’s northern Tigray region has had no impact on UNICEF\u2019s response to the drought-stricken areas hundreds of kilometers (miles) to the southeast.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Malawi. Somalia, Kenya, and now Ethiopia have raised the alarm about the latest climate shock to a fragile region traversed by herders and others trying to keep their animals, and themselves, alive. In Ethiopia\u2019s Somali region, people have seen the failures of what should have been three straight rainy seasons. 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