Horn of Africa braces for rise in droughts due to warming

Tiaty residents fetching water from a dugout well on the banks of a dried-up Akwitchatis River in Baringo County. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

The Horn of Africa could be on the brink of more severe droughts due to ongoing human-induced global warming.

In a detailed study recently published in Nature Journal presents an unsettling prediction. The findings are based on a reconstruction of hydroclimate variability for the past 75,000 years reconstructed from lake sediment.