Original post: 07/14/2011.  Updated: 08/06/2011.

Where Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya meet, 12 MILLION people are affected by a climate change / fossil fuel emissions-induced chronic drought.  This figure will soon rise to 15 MILLION.  The UN has declared an official state of famine in several regions and revealed that TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED over the last few months.  Hundreds die each day, 500,000 children are at risk of starvation and more than 29,000 under the age of 5 have died over the last 90 days!

Poorest of the poor. Most vulnerable of the vulnerable.  Thousands migrate per week. Some have walked for 35 days across parched landscape in extreme heat with little water or food, mourning their dead children, giving birth, or dying enroute to the wolrd's biggest, overloaded, 460,000+ Kenyan refugee camp, Dadaab.

RIGHT NOW, our shared atmosphere is on an accelerating course to reach a state of potentially unsurvivable, runaway climate extremes during the lives of today's children. Only EMERGENCY international action at EMERGENCY speed *may be* proportional enough to confront the scale, scope and urgency of what is already the greatest crime against humanity, most life and most future life EVER. (See: Climate Change Human Impact Report 2009).

Get informed. Get inspired. Get involved and help to motivate bold, new, transformative approaches and just, resilient, EMERGENCY RESPONSES to the climate crisis FAST.

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News & donate

• The Guardian -- Famine (Compilation)
• BBC News -- East Africa Hunger Crisis (Compilation)
• CBC News - East Africa Relief (Compilation)
• FEWS - Famine Early Warning Systems Network: Horn of Africa Emergency 2011
• Donate - HumanitarianCoalition.ca

Selected articles & posts

• Article - Why East Africa's famine warning was not heeded, Hugo Slim, The Guardian
• Report - Between 50,000 and 100,000 lives lost due to late response to crisis, Oxfam
• Article - The F Word, Bono, Huffington Post
• Article - Somalia without a #tag, Riyaad Minty, Al Jazeera
• Article - 750,000 face imminent starvation, 100s die daily as famine spreads, K. Migiro, Reuters
• Article - Somalian famine could kill 750,000 in months, CBC
• Article - Global warming behind Somali drought, Julio Godoy, IPS
• Article - Somali famine kills more than 29,000 children, AP via CBC
• Article - Misery follows as Somalis try to flee hunger, Jeffrey Gettleman, NY Times
• Article - Somalia worst humanitarian disaster in world, AP via CBC
• Post - The connection between global warming and Somalia's drought, Joe Romm, CP
• Post - "Worst food crisis of the 21st century" driven by "worst drought in 60 years" in East Africa as climate change makes reduced rainfall a "chronic problem", CP
• Article - East Africa drought 'the most severe humanitarian EMERGENCY in the world, Olivia Ward, Toronto Star
• Article - Water wars: Almost half of humanity to face water scarcity by 2030, strife to ensue, Chris Arsenault, Al Jazeera via Common Dreams
• Article - The CIA's secret sites in Somalia, Jeremy Scahill, The Nation

Related

• ecoSanity - Maplecroft's global water stress index 2011
• ecoSanity - Climate Change Human Impact Report: Hundreds of millions suffering, 4 billion vulnerable NOW
• ecoSanity - GLOBAL EMERGENCY NOW: Latest climate models project prolonged worldwide droughts by 2030s
• ecoSanity - Category: Drought
• ecoSanity - Category: Water depletion
• ecoSanity - Category: Food/agriculture
• ecoSanity - Compilation: Food/agriculture & climate emergency
• Report - A dangerous delay, Oxfam
• Briefing PDF - Horn of Africa drought: Climate change and future impacts on food security, Oxfam.org
• Website - Oxfam.org/East Africa
• Website - Oxfam Canada - East Africa drought