Drought in Horn of Africa due to global warming, report says
A woman drives her livestock along a dry bend of River Nyariginu in Laikipia County, Kenya, in search of water on February 16, 2023. A WWA report said while climate change had little effect on total annual rainfall in the Horn of Africa, higher temperatures significantly increased evaporation from soil and plants, which made dry soils more likely. PHOTO | JOSEPH KANYI | NMG
A devastating drought that has struck the Horn of Africa could not have occurred without global warming, according to a new report released Thursday from an international team of climate scientists.
"Human-caused climate change has made agricultural drought in the Horn of Africa about 100 times more likely," said a summary of the report by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group.
