Catastrophic drought risks becoming one of the first major humanitarian crises of the ‘post-aid era,’ aid groups warn

At one point in his life, Abdirahman Mohamed Ali had enough livestock to be considered rich.

Three consecutive failed rainy seasons have taken everything , and all his camels, goats and sheep are now bones on the plains of central Somalia.

“The climate doesn’t have mercy. I’ve been herding livestock for over seventy years and now I’ve lost everything,” he told the Telegraph from his new home in a makeshift tent by a dirt road on the edge of the capital, Mogadishu.

“In the past years, even while herding livestock as they withered away, I would keep going because I knew the rains would come eventually,” the 82-year-old says.…