Somalia - Humanitarian Aid Cuts Leave Millions of Children Vulnerable to Hunger
UNICEF says funding cuts have shut 205 facilities and could leave nearly 1 million children, adolescent girls and women without nutrition services.
- At least 205 health and nutrition facilities across Somalia have closed due to severe humanitarian funding cuts, leaving children increasingly vulnerable to malnutrition and preventable illnesses, the UN Children's Fund reported on Friday.
- These funding cuts arrive as Somalia's humanitarian needs spike dramatically, with nearly 1.9 million children projected to be affected by malnutrition this year amid ongoing armed conflict and extreme food insecurity.
- Compared to last year, Somalia has seen a 32 per cent increase in children admitted to stabilisation centres with severe acute malnutrition, driven by loss of access to preventive and community-based nutrition services.
- "Fewer facilities mean longer journeys for mums and their babies; longer journeys mean later treatment," warned UNICEF spokesperson James Elder in Geneva on Friday, noting later treatment increases risks of preventable death.
- Mr. Elder underscored it is a "brutal contradiction" to cut resources for vulnerable children while pressures intensify, warning that dismantling effective aid is a decision to pay more in lives and lost development later.
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The Somali city of Baidoa has been on the verge of its capacity for months. The number of people settling in this locality, the most populated in the south-west of the country, has not stopped growing since the beginning of the year due to droughts, which have left thousands of families without crops and have triggered cases of child malnutrition. Baidoa has become the epicenter of a crisis that has forced more than 500,000 people to leave their…
UN warns humanitarian aid cuts leave millions of children vulnerable to hunger in Somalia
The UN warned on Friday that the global decrease in funding for humanitarian aid has forced aid programmes and facilities in Somalia to shut down and is resulting in increasingly severe consequences for Somali children. According to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF)’s spokesperson, James Elder, aid cuts closed doors to healthcare and deprived people, including children, of access to water and education. The UN reported that the unprecedented cuts …
Somalia - Humanitarian Aid Cuts Leave Millions of Children Vulnerable to Hunger
The global funding crisis for humanitarian work is taking a growing toll on the most vulnerable children in Somalia, where some aid programmes and facilities have been forced to shut down.
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UNICEF Warns: Somalia’s Child Crisis Deepens as 205 Health Facilities Close
At least 205 health and nutrition facilities have closed across Somalia amid severe humanitarian funding cuts, leaving children increasingly vulnerable to malnutrition, preventable illnesses, and other risks, UNICEF reported.
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