
By: OXFAM
Climate change is real. In this country it is real.”
Shukri Haji Ismail Bandare is the Minister of Environment and Rural Development in Somaliland. Somaliland is facing climate change now and Shukri is taking action.
“In the last 10 years, it [has been] like drought after drought. Climate change created huge displacement.”
“[Because of the droughts, people were] walking a long way to rescue their family but could not get pasture, could not get enough water. Could not gather the strength to move. We lost around 70 – 80% of our livestock. So it was a disaster. It literally affected every sector of the society.”
