Food Security Cluster

DUBAI — Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) distributed 140 tons of food baskets in Somalia on Monday. The aid benefited 12,000 in-need, displaced and drought-affected people in the African nation, wrote state agency SPA. The philanthropic organization also distributed 570 winter bags in Pakistan, benefiting …

Eleven-year-old Dahir weaves his way between a growing cluster of homemade huts on the edge of Baidoa, heading to a tin-roofed school building near the main road. He is wearing his only shirt and trousers, and clutching his one other possession – a new schoolbook. The school’s sole teacher, Abdullah …

MOGADISHU — The United National Population Fund (UNFPA) has sent out an appeal for $113.7 million for its Response Plan for the Hon of Africa Drought crisis  to respond to women and girls escalating needs to scale up the delivery of life-saving reproductive health and protection services. UNFPA said a catastrophe is unfolding …

DUBAI  — The International Humanitarian City (IHC) promptly responded to and supported the World Health Organisation (WHO) with the dispatch and transport of much-needed aid to Mogadishu, Somalia, following a deadly car bombing that claimed the lives of more than 120 people and injured at least 300 others. A consignment …

MOGADISHU — Qatar Charity  has distributed about 5,000 food baskets to the displaced and those affected by drought in Mogadishu, Baidoa, Gedo, and Lower Juba. These baskets contain essential food items that suffice for a month, 1,200 affected families, about 7,200 beneficiaries, benefited from these distributions. The project implementation comes …

MOGADISHU — The United Nations humanitarian agency on Thursday provided 17 million U.S. dollars to provide immediate assistance to communities in areas at highest risk of famine in Somalia. Adam Abdelmoula, the UN deputy special representative of the Secretary-General and also UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, said the …

Since 1990 the world’s famines have been classified as small – with the glaring exceptions of Somalia in 1991-92 and 2010-12. Now the UN’s World Food Programme says that nearly seven million Somalis face not being able to find enough food in the last months of 2022. Baidoa and Burhakaba …

HOUSTON — Coastline Exploration Limited (“Coastline”), the upstream oil and gas company focused on East Africa, is donating $1.4m in food aid to 6,000 households in Somalia to help with the famine relief effort. The food will be donated across three areas, Barawe in South West, Hobyo in Galmudug, and Kismayo in Jubaland, with 2,000 …

MOGADISHU — The United Nations made an announcement on Friday that global food supply to Somalia was the only motive why scarcity was being kept at bay in the concerned nation. The UN’s World Food Programme stated the situation was terrible and the country was currently in a desperate race …

GENEVA — The World Food Program warned Friday it is only a matter of time before Somalia is hit with a full-blown famine and people start dying in droves. The United Nations food agency said it has been able to keep famine at bay in Somalia by massively increasing food …