The International Crisis Group posted on 15 May 2024 a three-minute video titled "Somalia's Climate Crisis and the fight against Al-Shabaab" with Nazanine Moshiri.
Somalia is the world's second most vulnerable country to climate change. One-fifth of the country has been displaced by extreme climate events. The Somali government needs to provide the infrastructure to deal with floods and drought if it expects to combat successfully al-Shabaab.
The Heritage Institute published in September 2023 conference proceedings titled "Climate Change and Conflict in the Horn: Challenges, Responses and New Mandates."
No challenge is more daunting in the Horn of Africa than climate change. This document brings together 15 papers that aid in the understanding of climate change and the impact it has on livelihoods, conflicts, and understanding the way forward in the Somali context.
The Conversation published on 13 September 2023 a commentary titled "Addis Ababa Faces Growing Climate Change Risks Like Heat, Drought and Floods, Study Warns" by Abay Yimere, Addis Ababa University.
Due to climate change, Addis Ababa will likely face increased heatwaves, extreme drought, and severe flooding in the future.
The International Organization for Migration posted in August 2022 a report entitled "A Region on the Move 2021: East and Horn of Africa."
The report discusses the main humanitarian situations, with a focus on internal displacement and mixed migration flows along the major migration corridors of the region. It explores mobility dynamics affecting East Africa and the Horn by providing a regional overview of data and trends on international migrants to discussing specific groups of migrants, namely migrant workers, refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons and irregular migrants along the main migratory corridors.
The Heritage Institute for Policy Studies published in November 2021 a study titled "Prospects of Food Security in Somalia under Looming Climate Changes" by Abdirashid Elmi.
The report provides an assessment of food security challenges in Somalia in the face of climate extremes. Somalia has warmed faster than the global average. Alternating droughts and floods have intensified, causing more households to face the risk of becoming food insecure. Climate change is predicted to adversely affect agricultural yields in Somalia where crop production relies heavily on environmental factors such as rainfall and temperature. There is an interdependent relationship between food production and climate change.
