Over the last week, “60,000 Turkana pastoralists and 127,000 livestock have moved [from northwest Kenya] to Uganda’s Karamjoa sub-region” in search of vegetation for their livestock (Deutsche Welle, April 18, 2017). “The end of March was supposed to bring rains to Turkana, transforming barren plains into pasture. It still hasn’t happened.

In barely half a year, there have been terrorist attacks in London (March), Paris (February), Berlin (December), Hamburg (October), and last week in Stockholm. In 2016, terrorist attacks in Europe claimed the lives of 150 people (USA Today, April 7, 2017).

Just days after U.S. President Trump tweeted he would “‘solve the problem’ of North Korea” if China did not exert more pressure on its neighbor, North Korea warned there would be “catastrophic consequences” to any further provocations by the U.S. (Guardian, April 11, 2017). North Korea has threatened a nuclear response against the U.S. mainland should they feel threatened by U.S.