| 2 Dec 2024 - From October to December there is normally a short rainy season (deyr) in the livestock-dependent southern and southeastern lowlands of the country.
These rains are critically important to the livelihoods of pastoralists, as they recharge water sources and replenish pasture, and thus sustain livestock through the dry-season from December to April. When the deyr season fails, the population in these areas usually experiences extremely stressful water and pasture shortages until the gu (March May) rainy seasons.
In recent years, a combination of successive droughts, high cereal prices, conflict, and the ban on livestock imports to markets in the Gulf States has rendered the livestock-dependent population highly food insecure and increasingly vulnerable to poor seasonal rainfall performance.
This year, the performances of deyr rains in Somali Region has been very poor, raising concerns for many parts of the deyr dependent southern Somali Region. According to the region's November 21 Food Security Flash report, there are districts where no rainfall has been reported. Districts that to date have received insufficient deyr rains include: Kelafo, Mustahil, Ferfer, Denan and East Imi (Gode zone); Barey, and parts of Gorobaqaqsa, Hargelle, Elkare, Chareti, Dolobay and West Imi (Afder zone); Moyale and Dolo-ado (Liban zone), Hamaro, Segeg, Duhun, Garbo, Lagahido, Salahad and Mayomuluko (Fik zone); Sheygosh (Korahe zone); and Galadi and parts of Warder and Danot in Warder Zone.
The Food Security Flash further indicates that, as a result of the poor rains, access to pasture and water is currently insufficient to sustain livestock herds and human needs until the long-rains begin in March-April 2006.
The situation is worse in the districts that had poor rains during the last gu season, including Fik, Gode, Afder, Liban and parts of Korahe zones. The emergence of stress signs (including abnormally early livestock migrations, deterioration of livestock body condition, and crop wilting in agro-pastoral areas) at such an early stage is serious concern, given that conditions will continue to deteriorate during the upcoming dry season (January March/April) in these seven southern zones of the Region.
Source: Reliefweb.com
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