The Borena zone in the Somali and Oromia regions is still experiencing the effects of the drought, according to the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC). According to the same study, the impacts of the drought have gotten worse because there hasn’t been rain in the Borena zone for five rainy seasons in the last three years.
According to sources, the area’s 900,000 residents desperately require food and 870,000 require water. In addition, he noted that the elderly, pregnant women, and children are all at risk for health problems brought on by a shortage of food.
In the Borena region, an estimated 3.3 million domestic animals died as a result of the drought. This will cost somewhere in the neighbourhood of 33 billion birr. 60,000 homes were then said to have lost all of their pets. The commission added that 69,000 dwellings, or more than 378,000 people, have been forced to migrate as a result of the effects of the drought in the region increasing worse.
Also, it is been stated that more than 112 thousand children are susceptible to food shortage.