It is gathered that children are being attacked by hungry monkeys and threatened by starving warthogs in East Africa as drought, displacement and conflict ravage the region.
Ten of thousands of children in Ethiopia are suffering from the ‘most deadly’ form of malnutrition due to the drought in the east and south of the country, British charity Save the Children said Thursday, which is also causing animals to act ‘unnaturally’.
The charity said it has received reports of families fending off starving monkeys with sticks, while warthogs have begun encroaching on people’s homes in search of food.
‘Monkeys never normally attack people, but the situation is so terrible that they are resorting to unnatural behaviour like this especially in Dawa and Shebelle areas, the first areas affected by the drought,’ Abdirizak Ahmed, Save the Children’s Operations Manager for the eastern regions of Ethiopia, said .
