Photographer Documents Impact of Climate Change on Somalia

Over the last 2 years photographer Nichole Sobecki and journalist Laura Heaton have documented the devastating impact of climate change on one of the most unstable places in the world, Somalia.

Their reporting appears in Foreign Policy magazine in an article titled “Somalia’s Land is Dying. The People Will Be Next.”

What they found is summed up by Somali-American environmental activist Fatima Jibrell. Jibrell tells them that the changing weather patterns are making Somalia unlivable. “Maybe the land, a piece of desert called Somalia, will exist on the map of the world,” Jibrell says of the future of her country, “but Somalis cannot survive.”

Sobecki and Heaton repeatedly traveled to Somalia and the sprawling Dadaab refugee camp in Northeast Kenya to report on how the lives of Somalis are being affected.

http://www.opb.org/news/article/npr-photos-of-somalia-surviving-in-one-of-the-worlds-driest-places/

Ron Jones

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