Desperation increases in southern Ethiopia

Friday, July 15, 2011

  • 2011_Ethiopia_drought-6903.jpgUnable to find water, a camel lies slumped on the ground in the Borena region of south Ethiopia where widespread drought is forcing people and livestock to search far afield for water. ACT/DCA/Binyan Mengesha
  • 2011_Ethiopia_drought-6913.jpgAn old man decries the lack of food in the Borena region of south Ethiopia. Here, people are daily collecting and burning the carcasses of livestock that die of dehydration. Residents warn that in a month, it will be their own bodies lying dead awaiting collection. ACT/DCA/Binyan Mengesha
  • 2011_Ethiopia_drought-6927.jpgA woman covers her face in anguish at the lack of food and water in the drought-hit Borena region of south Ethiopia. ACT/DCA/Binyan Mengesha
  • 2011_Ethiopia_drought-6944.jpgA woman in south Ethiopia's drought-hit Borena region finds shade under a building where she attempts to breastfeed her infant. ACT/DCA/Binyan Mengesha
  • 2011_Ethiopia_drought-6979.jpgA woman kisses a child, a small act of love in the drought-hit region of Borena, south Ethiopia. ACT/DCA/Binyan Mengesha
  • 2011_Ethiopia_drought-7039.jpgA steady adult hand directs a cup of precious water to an infant in the Borena region of south Ethiopia. ACT/DCA/Binyan Mengesha
  • 2011_Ethiopia_drought-7062.jpgAn exhausted child suckles its mother's breast in south Ethiopia, where the worst drought to hit the Horn of Africa in 60 years is claiming scores of lives. ACT/DCA/Binyan Mengesha
  • 2011_Ethiopia_drought-7099.jpgA woman collects firewood in the parched Borena district of south Ethiopia. Women across the Horn of Africa are walking for miles each day to find water and firewood as the region experiences the worst drought in 60 years. ACT/DCA/Binyan Mengesha
  • 2011_Ethiopia_drought-7117.jpgThe skeletal remains of a cow lie where the animal fell in the baked rural areas of Borena, south Ethiopia. ACT/DCA/Binyan Mengesha
  • 2011_Ethiopia_drought-7136.jpgThe withered carcasses of a cow and her calf lie on the arid land of south Ethiopia's Borena region. ACT/DCA/Binyan Mengesha