Starvation as a weapon of spillover: Somalia’s famine warning exposes the human cost of global indifference
AS the world’s gaze remains fixed on the explosive confrontations in the Middle East, a slower, quieter, but equally lethal catastrophe is swallowing Somalia whole. The fallout from distant wars - not drought alone - is now pushing millions of Somalis toward the precipice of formal famine, exposing a brutal new reality: in a fractured global economy, a conflict in one region can trigger a starvation death sentence in another. The UN aid teams have issued a chilling recalibration of the crisis in the Horn of Africa. At least six million people are enduring days without food. Nearly two million…
