Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff | CaptionSix hundred miles to the southeast, meanwhile, Ethiopia’s Somali region is hungry, too – or more accurately, it is thirsty. "I'm 80 years old and I'm telling you that I have never seen a drought like this before," says Abdullahi Abdi, a resident of Melkaselah, a windswept village in the Somali Region. And if Ethiopia was once the world’s poster child for drought mismanagement, it is now the regional model for early warning and nimble response. A shepherd herds his camels in search of water in Kebridhar, in Ethiopia's Somali Region. In the Somali region of Ethiopia, ground zero of the current drought, that series has been especially devastating.

Source: Ethiopian News July 24, 2017 19:07 UTC