Vulnerability
The government and the Refugees have not yet announced information on how refugees integrate them into the local community or, for example, how they can buy property.
Converting overcrowded, shortage of funds into a village with great freedom, inevitably requires a lot of money from both the government -related stakeholders.
However, Dadab is already suffering from reducing funds. Fardousa shares that camp administrators are having a hard time providing even the basics of new Somali refugees.
As the world’s heating worsens, the number of DADAAB arrival is set to increase. Most of Somalia is the most violent hitting of drought and floods in the agricultural breeder economy, so only livestock is generally around. 40 % of GDP。
Around 69 Somalia’s population percentage is estimated to live under the poverty line. In 2021, Somalia was ranked into the world’s most vulnerable of 185 countries investigated. Notre Dame University。
burial
Due to the climate crisis and various extreme weather phenomena, many large Somalia farmers have fallen into desperate situations as crops have failed and livestock dies.
For example, Harima Hassan Ibrahim fled to Dadab from the Somalia area of ​​the Juba River Valley when drought was drowned in a row and livestock was killed.
EJF met a single mother of seven disabled people during the field trip. Harima lived in the suburbs of Dagahari, and was in a makeshift accommodation, and could not regularly access clean water and hygiene facilities.
Harima states: “We had been suffering from drought for four years. We were growing our fields. There were 10 cows and 50 goats. All cows and goats died and others. All of them were destroyed, so we were a child’s mother and father.
Khaira Hassan Mohammed has lived in camps since the 2011 hunger Amine and is now 99 years old. She had six children, but after arriving, I filled everything. When asked about her expectations for the future, she said: “Don’t ask about my life. I don’t receive anything, no one will help me.”
living
One year after EJF visited DADAAB, it rained. However, instead of the celebration, the downpour turned into a flood, leading to the same result. The knock -on effect of Dadab’s flood is miserable.
Latest analysis From the coordinating bureau for the humanitarian agreement that floods affected more than 200,000 people between April and June, 2024 and driven almost 40,000 people.
This is the end of the flood at the end of 2023. It led to Eernino promoting the flood, which led to the Somalia government calling for an emergency in some areas. By the end of 2023 2.48 million The people were influenced and about 1.2 million were kicked out of the house.
Refugees evacuated to the Somalia flood arrived in Dadab from 2023 to 2024, but by May 2024, 20,000 existing residents have evacuated by 20,000 existing residents. camp.
When he talked to Fardowsa again in October 2024, she clearly showed the effects of floods on Dadaab’s living conditions. “Through this year, Dadab has no quality. [The floods] We are increasing only the number of refugees. Small resources from agents are not enough for this harsh life and climate. ”
Dignity
Filmide Samuel has repeatedly shared that Fardowsa has insufficient food, water and medical supplies. “This has become a nutritional problem. The funds have decreased and the health center has been affected. I can’t get enough medicine to be distributed to refugees.
“If you get a prescription, they go to get the medicine on the counter, but there is no cash, which means that their lives are at crisis.”
As Dadab’s situation is more desperate, the true perpetrators of the climate crisis fail to step up and take responsibility.
Somalia’s climate refugees are at the forefront of the climate crisis, but in 2019, Somalia was one -fifth of the EU, and the entire African continent contributed to it. 3.8 Permanent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
The story of Dadab’s climate refugee demonstrates the need for a dignified and sustainable solution based on the dignified, rights based on the growing threats caused by climate.
protection
Kenya’s refugee law is a welcome step, but the government has to make sure it will be a reality. Beyond this, in order to change the lives and future of people at the forefront of the climate crisis, global -level human mobility policies must take into account the effects of global heating.
Conversely, the easing of climate change and adaptation policies need to take into account the impact of human mobility. The international acceptance of links between global heating and human mobility is increasing, but the opinions of various actors and institutions are different about how to concept this new problem and act.
Climate change can be framed as a humanitarian crisis or as a climate adaptation strategy as a security threat. How it is framed affects the form of a global governance solution for climate change.
However, if there is no urgent development of a robust framework designed to effectively protect the most vulnerable people in the climate crisis, in reality, millions of people around the world are actually the most basic. It means that you are still deprived of human rights.
The law, such as Kenya’s refugee law, proposes integration and proposes to fight states, is essential for changing refugees, but should be complemented by international legal frameworks to protect climate refugees. It will not be blurred. As the result of climate collapse continues to increase, we must do what we can to support the most vulnerable people.
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Steve Trent is the highest executive and founder of the Environmental Justice Foundation.
