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Thousands of people living in improvised settlements on the outskirts of Guriel lack access to essential services, including food, water and healthcare. [Alyona Synenko/ICRC]
Kulmiye Community hospital, one of the two main hospitals in Guriel, caught fire and burned down during the recent bout of fighting. [Alyona Synenko/ICRC]
“When we were in the emergency handling wounded patients, that's when the disaster happened and the entire hospital got burned,” says Dr. Ali Tarabi, the chairman of Kulmiye Community hospital. [Alyona Synenko/ICRC]
The facility was a referral hospital that offered outpatient, inpatient, maternity and immunisation services to people from surrounding villages located as far as 100km (62 miles) away. [Alyona Synenko/ICRC]
Now that the hospital is no longer functioning, the pressure on the remaining health facilities has considerably increased. In Somalia, there are only four doctors, nurses or midwives for every 10,000 people and one out of every seven Somali children dies under the age of five, according to the World Health Organization. [Alyona Synenko/ICRC]
The Somali Red Crescent Society and the ICRC are running mobile clinics for displaced people in the region. [Alyona Synenko/ICRC]
Some of the displaced have been living in the region for years, having fled past droughts in their places of origin. Others have arrived recently, escaping fighting in Guriel. [Alyona Synenko/ICRC]
With the drought worsening, displaced people living in settlements do not have enough water. The ICRC trucking in water is just a temporary solution to respond to the emergency. [Alyona Synenko/ICRC]
Gelle Mohamud is a technician working on one of the boreholes in Guriel. The borehole provided water to thousands of people in the area until its two generators were damaged by the fighting. [Alyona Synenko/ICRC]
On November 23, Somalia's federal government declared a state of emergency, as the number of people affected by the drought continues to grow. Somalia is one of the world's most vulnerable countries when it comes to the effects of climate change. It has always been prone to climate extremes, but in recent years such weather events have become so frequent and so severe that people have no time to recover. [Alyona Synenko/ICRC]
The drought has forced an estimated 100,000 people to flee their homes in search of food, water and pasture for their livestock. [Alyona Synenko/ICRC]
Life is slowly returning to Guriel, but it will take time and effort to repair the damage, especially while the region is grappling with the consequences of the drought. Along the main street of the town, there are visible signs of destruction, with small businesses remaining shut and buildings standing empty with bullets scattered on the floor. Still, it is the drought that seems to weigh heavily on people’s minds. [Alyona Synenko/ICRC]
More than 80 percent of Somalia is estimated to be experiencing severe drought conditions. [Alyona Synenko/ICRC]
The arrival of many people and livestock from other areas has added additional pressure on scarce water resources. [Alyona Synenko/ICRC]
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