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July 12, 2011

UN Official Links Climate Change to Somalia Drought 
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Valerie Amos, a top UN official said the world must make the link
between climate change and the drought in Somalia.

Valerie Amos, U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and
Emergency Relief Coordinator: "We have to take the impact of climate
change more seriously as well. Everything I've heard has said that we
used to have drought every ten years, then it became every five years
and now it's every two years. And it you don't have the rains at the
beginning of the year or towards the end of one year then you are going
to have a problem into the next year."



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