Shite! This is a real threat to people's livelihood. Deforestation too is taking its toll, and making things worse. I visited Dhinawda earlier in the year, and saw the degradation fastly deteriorating.
'Hobyo is not the only place facing this fate. Towns in the south-central region, including Dinowda, Warsheikh, Cadale, Masagawaay, Ceeldheer, Hoodleey and Harardhere, are being slowly entombed'.
'Cadale lost the only secondary school they have, as sand is covering the city. I was there a month ago. I spoke to a colleague in Barawe and they have the same scenario,β says Mohamud.
'Hobyo is not the only place facing this fate. Towns in the south-central region, including Dinowda, Warsheikh, Cadale, Masagawaay, Ceeldheer, Hoodleey and Harardhere, are being slowly entombed'.
'Cadale lost the only secondary school they have, as sand is covering the city. I was there a month ago. I spoke to a colleague in Barawe and they have the same scenario,β says Mohamud.
βSwallowed by the sandβ: Somaliaβs coastal towns succumb to the desert
As deforestation removes protection from the ferocious winds, compounding damage from climate crisis-driven drought, sand dunes are burying the medieval port of Hobyo. Will pledges to green the desert save communities already displaced by war?
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