International community must overhaul approach to aid

The humanitarian tragedy in Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, and Yemen is not new, but unless the world works for longterm change at a local level we’re doomed to see the cycle of suffering to continue, says Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré.

The scale of human suffering currently engulfing drought-stricken Somalia is almost indescribable.

It is difficult to find words to convey the devastation and misery gripping the country, now in the midst of a prolonged period of record-low rainfall. I have watched emaciated herds of livestock drop, lifeless, into the dust, and been present when people’s futures evaporated in front of their eyes.