Food Security Cluster

CAIRO — Arab League (AL) affirmed on Sunday the importance of rapid response to aid those affected by natural disasters and armed conflict, pointing to the increasing numbers of needy people, which reached nearly 250 million persons worldwide. This came in a statement published by the Secretariat-General of the Arab …

KAMPALA — Russia’s decision on Monday to pull out of an agreement which allowed the export of Ukrainian agricultural goods via a safe channel through the Black Sea amid the continuing war is already reverberating far from the front lines of fighting in Ukraine. For years, East African countries rattled …

DADAAB — In Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp, the thousands of new Somali refugees are struggling as food insecurity worsens. As Somali suffers its worst drought in years, Somali refugees have fled over the border to Kenya. In recent months, 135,000 have arrived at Dadaab, one of the world’s largest refugee …

ADDIS ABABA — Drought conditions in the Horn of Africa region have displaced around 2.7 million people, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said Sunday. In a regional situation update report, the WFP said that 1.7 million people in Somalia, 516,000 people in Ethiopia and 466,000 people in Kenya …

MOGADISHU — As part of its humanitarian contribution to achieving comprehensive and sustainable development for needy groups, Qatar Charity  has donated a set of fishing boats equipped with the necessary equipment and tools to low-income fishermen in Somalia. The project aims to enable fishermen to increase their productivity and improve …

MOGADISHU — The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is calling for enhanced early warning and anticipatory action in Somalia ahead of an expected El Niño and positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) event and the start of the upcoming Deyr rainy season in October 2023 that could …

UNITED NATIONS — The Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF), a multi-donor country-based pooled mechanism established to allocate funding for the most urgent interventions in Somalia, has allocated $25 million to provide life-saving assistance to drought-affected communities, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wednesday. Additionally, the …

UNITED NATIONS — World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Cindy McCain on Thursday called for a five-pronged action plan to address the serious and growing emergency in Somalia. First, she called on all UN member states to contribute to the humanitarian response plan for Somalia, which is seriously underfunded. The …

NAIVASHA — The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations on Thursday launched a project in Kenya’s lakeside town of Naivasha to protect staple food crops from devastating losses caused by the African armyworm, a pest which can destroy up to 100 percent of staple foods if left …

ADDIS ABABA — The Horn of Africa has been impacted by a mixture of continued drought and heavy rains that caused severe flash floods in some parts of the region, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said. The flood waters have worsened the risk of water-borne diseases such as …