Sanaag administration delivers water to drought hit areas

Sanaag administration has started trucking water to areas that had been hardest hit by the drought in a bid to fill the gaps in aid distribution.

Sheikh Saiid Ahmed Adar, a member of Sanaag Drought Response Committee said several waterboozers have delivered water to Boda-Adde village.

“We started trucking and we did it because we see the plight of the displaced every day,” Adar said. “For now we are addressing the most pressing problem, and that is water.”

Acute water crisis has hit some villages in several regions following a drought that has shrunk pasture and water resources in the regions.

The water pans, boreholes and other sources of water have dried up in rural areas and livestock herders have been moving to the regions seeking water.

Thousands of Somalis have fled the countryside in search of food and water, trekking for days under scorching sun toward camps in major towns.

Pastoralist families are facing a serious shortage of water and pastures after several water points dried up the last few months as a result of dry spell that has hit in the breakaway Somaliland and Puntland state.