{"id":7386,"date":"2020-01-10T08:48:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T05:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7386"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","slug":"climate-change-conflict-making-more-in-east-africa-vulnerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/10\/climate-change-conflict-making-more-in-east-africa-vulnerable\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change, Conflict Making More In East Africa Vulnerable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Daily Nation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate\nchange is upending lives across Africa. Okello Ligolo, a fisherman from Kisumu\nCounty, spent Christmas in a secondary school after floods forced him from his\nhome. He recalls when major floods were less frequent, occurring once a decade\nor so. Now they seem to occur yearly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HIT\nHARD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nflooding, attributed to rainfall from the Indian Ocean dipole, affected 160,000\npeople in Kenya, 570,000 in Ethiopia and 550,000 in Somalia. Djibouti witnessed\ntwo years of rain in a day, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian\nAffairs (Ocha) said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kenya\nRed Cross assisted more than 6,500 severely affected households \u2014 mostly in\ncentral and western Kenya \u2014 with relief supplies, medical assistance and\nmaterial to set up camps. Crops and livestock were victims of the high water,\nraising fears of food insecurity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nclimate is changing everywhere, but East Africa is being particularly hit hard.\nA quarter of the 20 countries most vulnerable to climate change are in this\nregion: Somalia, Eritrea, Burundi, Sudan and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What makes\nit worse is that many of those countries have recently suffered from conflict\nor violence; clearly, conflict and climate change make for a miserable combination.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/oped\/opinion\/Climate-change--conflict-making-more-in-East-Africa-vulnerable\/440808-5411312-y7rq75z\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation Climate change is upending lives across Africa. Okello Ligolo, a fisherman from Kisumu County, spent Christmas in a secondary school after floods forced him from his home.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}