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Food aid in Somalia could halt within weeks due to funding shortages, WFP warns
Funding cuts have reduced emergency food aid to 600,000 people, leaving one in seven in need supported, with severe hunger affecting nearly 1 million, the WFP reports.
- On Friday, the World Food Programme warned life‑saving emergency food and nutrition assistance in Somalia could be forced to a halt by April as the country faces one of the most complex hunger crises in recent years.
- The WFP said the crisis is driven by one failed rainy season, conflict and a sharp drop in humanitarian funding, reflecting Somalia’s climate vulnerability.
- Emergency aid has fallen from 2.2 million in early 2025 to about 600,000, while nutrition programmes dropped from nearly 400,000 in October last year to 90,000, the WFP says.
- Without immediate emergency food support, the WFP warned conditions will worsen quickly and the most vulnerable—mostly women and children—may be unreachable in time, with 4.4 million people facing crisis‑level food insecurity.
- Taken together, MSF and the WFP warn of wider regional consequences as rising preventable child illnesses last month coincide with the WFP’s caution of devastating humanitarian, security and economic consequences beyond Somalia.
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Food aid in Somalia could halt within weeks due to funding shortages, WFP warns
The U.N. World Food Programme said on Friday its life-saving food and nutrition assistance in Somalia could grind to a halt by April unless new funding is secured, putting millions of people at risk of worsening hunger.
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Almost a million women, men and children suffer from "severe hunger", according to the UN agency. The United States had announced in early January that all its "aid programs" in Somalia would be suspended.
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