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Somalia Faces Renewed Hunger Emergency as UN Raises Alarm
Drought, conflict, and aid cuts have pushed 6.5 million Somalis into acute hunger, with over 2 million in emergency food insecurity, UN and humanitarian groups warn.
- On Tuesday, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned 6.5 million people face acute hunger, according to IPC projections for the first three months of 2026.
- Two consecutive failed rainy seasons and a late-2025 climate shock have heightened fears of a repeat of the 2022 hunger crisis, amid jihadist violence and political instability.
- Herders report catastrophic livestock losses, with one losing 90% of goats and two-thirds of camels, forcing thousands of families in central and southern regions to abandon rural areas for displacement camps or towns.
- The World Food Programme warned Friday aid may stop in Somalia by April, as assistance has already been reduced from 2.2 million to just over 600,000 people, with government officials convening no solutions.
- More than two million people are now in Phase 4, the 'emergency' category, while an estimated 1.84 million children under five face acute malnutrition and early 2025 baseline showed 3.4 million affected.
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Crisis-Levels of Hunger in Somalia More Than Double, Say UN-backed Experts
In this May 18, 2019 file photo, newly-arrived women who fled drought line up to receive food at a camp on the outskirts of the Somalian capital Mogadishu. The number of people in Somalia experiencing crisis-levels of food insecurity has nearly doubled in the past year to 6.5 million people, UN-backed experts warned Tuesday.The Horn of Africa country has been plagued by conflict and suffered two consecutive failed rainy seasons, asd well as a d…
Somalia's drought leaves 6.5 million on brink of hunger crisis, says ICRC
Somalia is teetering on the brink of a worsening humanitarian emergency, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which warns that 6.5 million people are facing acute hunger as prolonged drought devastates livelihoods.
The agency claims that about 6.5 million people face acute food insecurity after two...
The population classified as "crisis or worse" has "almost doubled" in one year, after two rainy seasons marked by insufficient rainfall.
After two consecutive rainy seasons without sufficient rainfall, the ICRC strongly fears a return to the catastrophic levels of famine observed in 2022. The Committee explains that livestock farming, weakened by repeated climatic shocks, "is now in the process of collapse", while more than 60% of the population depends on this sector to live.
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