Drought in Kenya

 Drought has descended yet again in northern Kenya,

As world leaders address a global climate summit in Glasgow, pastoralists watch their animals suffer from lack of water and food. 

Yusuf Abdullahi says he has lost 40 goats. “If they die, we all die,” he says. Wildlife have begun to die, too.

Kenya’s government has declared a national disaster in 10 of its 47 counties. The United Nations says more than 2 million people are severely food insecure. And with people trekking farther in search of food and water, observers warn that tensions among communities could sharpen. Experts warn that such climate shocks will become more common across Africa, which contributes the least to global warming, but will suffer from it most.

“We do not have a spare planet in which we will seek refuge once we have succeeded in destroying this one,” the executive director of East Africa’s Intergovernmental Authority on Development, Workneh Gebeyehu, said last month while opening a regional early warning climate center in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta stated, Africa, while currently responsible for a negligible amount of total global greenhouse gas emissions, is under significant threat from climate change.” The continent is responsible for just 4% of global emissions. Kenyatta was among the African leaders speaking at the global climate summit as they urged more attention and billions of dollars in financial support for the African continent.

AP PHOTOS: 'If they die, we all die': Drought kills in Kenya (apnews.com)