AllAfrica.com via IRIN: The self-declared republic of Somaliland has been gripped by a drought that has left thousands of families and their livestock in desperate need of water, officials say. "The first thing people ask you is for water, because both the people and their animals [are] seriously weak and cannot reach water wells in the remote areas," Said Ahmed Du'alle Bullale, MP for Saraar region, told IRIN on 2 August.The parliamentarian, who recently visited Saraar, Sool and Sanag regions, said many water wells had dried up. Those that still had water served very large populations. "About 100,000 [people] from Togdheer, Sool and Sanaag regions were displaced by the recent drought and no one is supporting [them]," he added.
The worst-affected areas included the main Saraar plains between Sanaag and Togdheer and Ba'ade, between Sool and Sanaag. "Most people have moved to places where some Gu' [long] rains were received, such as the mountains of Sanaag near Erigavo and the southeast district of Togdheer," the MP said….
A map of the Somaliland border dispute, uploaded by as Drieakko, Wikimedia Commons
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