Tiril Skarstein, Head of Media Unit Norwegian Refugee Council Somalia’s escalating drought is creating a massive displacement crisis. 245,000 people have already fled their homes, with numbers projected to reach up to 1.4 million as the drought worsens. “Somalia’s drought is dangerously escalating following three failed rainy seasons and some of the lowest rainfall in 40 years,” said Mohamed Abdi, Country Director for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in Somalia. “Without urgent preventative action to alleviate the crisis, lives will be lost.” A quarter of a million people have had no option but to leave their homes since the beginning