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Between late 2020 and early 2023, people in the Horn of Africa experienced the worst drought in more than 40 years, of which the world hardly took notice. By the end of 2022, almost 57 million people across eight countries faced a severe food crisis. While Kenya was not the country worst affected in terms of the number of people impacted—the highest level of food insecurity was recorded in Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan and Somalia—the situation there dete-riorated most rapidly over the course of that year. This drought—a failure of five con-secutive long and short rainy seasons over two and a half years—has been linked to an atypical La Niña phenomenon but must also be seen in the context of higher temperatures and greater rainfall variability that are predicted for the Horn of Africa in the years to come. The expected climate change impacts in this region include reduced freshwater availability, reduced crop production and reduced livestock productivity—all of which have serious negative impacts on people's livelihoods and food security as well as on patterns of (im)mobility, as we would argue.

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