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Climate Migration: Blind and homeless amid Somalia’s drought

The remains of dead livestock and a donkey are scattered at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

The remains of dead livestock and a donkey are scattered at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

The remains of dead livestock and a donkey are scattered at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

The remains of dead livestock and a donkey are scattered at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

The remains of dead livestock and a donkey are scattered at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

The remains of dead livestock and a donkey are scattered at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

The remains of dead livestock and a donkey are scattered at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

The remains of dead livestock and a donkey are scattered at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

The remains of dead livestock and a donkey are scattered at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

The remains of dead livestock and a donkey are scattered at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

The remains of dead livestock and a donkey are scattered at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

The remains of dead livestock and a donkey are scattered at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

The remains of dead livestock and a donkey are scattered at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

The remains of dead livestock and a donkey are scattered at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

The remains of dead livestock and a donkey are scattered at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

The remains of dead livestock and a donkey are scattered at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

The remains of dead livestock and a donkey are scattered at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Somalis who have been displaced settle at a camp on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Somali women wait their turn to collect water at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

A Somali woman fills a container with water at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

An elder Somali man takes shelter at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

A Somali family that arrived waits to be given a spot to settle at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Mohamed Kheir Issack, 80, right, and Issack Farow Hassan, 75, sit in Issack's shelter at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. The two blind men are friends and as close as brothers, gripping each other's hands in their mutual darkness as tightly as they hold their canes. Near the end of their lives, the most alarming drought in more than half a century in Somalia has stripped them of their animals and homes. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

A Somali woman breastfeeds her child at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

A Somali woman and children carry water at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

The remains of dead livestock and a donkey are scattered at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Huts made of branches and cloth provide shelter to Somalis displaced by drought on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

A Somali woman and child wait to be given a spot to settle at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. Somalia has long known droughts, but the climate shocks are now coming more frequently, leaving less room to recover and prepare for the next. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Mohamed Kheir Issack, 80, right, and and Issack Farow Hassan, 75, stand outside Issack's shelter at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. The two blind men are friends and as close as brothers, gripping each other's hands in their mutual darkness as tightly as they hold their canes. Near the end of their lives, the most alarming drought in more than half a century in Somalia has stripped them of their animals and homes. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Climate Migration: Blind and homeless amid Somalia’s drought