Food Security Cluster

BAIDOA — The situation in Somalia is extremely dire as 7.1 million people, including at least 370,000 children, are going to be affected by drought before the end of the year unless there is a massive humanitarian effort, a UN official has said. “Unless we scale up and step up …

MOGADISHU —  A UN official said Tuesday that the situation in Somalia is extremely dire as 7.1 million people are going to be affected by drought before the end of the year unless there is a massive humanitarian effort. “Unless we scale-up and step-up our response, unfortunately, many, many people, …

MOGADISHU – Somalia is experiencing its worst drought in decades, approaching famine-like conditions amid a worsening hunger and nutrition crisis, the special presidential envoy for drought response said Monday. Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame said 6.1 million Somalis are facing an extreme level of food insecurity while 330,000 children are facing severe …

MOGADISHU —  Somalia’s National Drought Relief Committee on Thursday said 6.9 million people in the Horn of African country are facing severe water shortages and food insecurity as the worst droughts in decades have escalated in the region. The drought has affected 90% of the country’s landmass and 66 districts across …

DOLLOW — Hacked-off thorn branches encircle two mounds of earth heaped over the tiny bodies of Halima Hassan Abdullahi’s twin granddaughters. Babies Ebla and Abdia lived only a day. Weakened by hunger, their mother gave birth to the twins a month early, eight weeks after their exhausted family walked into …

BAIDOA — Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management for South West regional State Abdinasir Abdi Arush chaired a virtual meeting to seek humanitarian intervention. The meeting was aimed at seeking to focused on effective humanitarian interventions in a bid to prevent the humanitarian situation in the State from deteriorating …

MOGADISHU — Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Tuesday appointed Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame as a special envoy for drought response in the country. Mohamud said he appointed Abdishakur owing to his vast experience and understanding of humanitarian and development fields including policy delivery. “Abdishakur will be tasked with working, nationally, …

GENEVA — The UN said on Friday that up to 18 million people in Africa’s Sahel region will face severe food insecurity over the next three months, the highest number since 2014, while there was also a warning about drought-induced food scarcity extending to East Africa as well. Jens Laerke, …

NAIROBI — The United Nations top relief official has warned of the worsening drought in the Horn of Africa (HoA) region which has already affected more than 18 million people across Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. Martin Griffiths, under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator who concluded a two-day visit …

NAIROBI — Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) ministerial and experts meeting on the current drought situation in the Horn of Africa region has commenced. The meeting began in the National capital Nairobi, Kenya on Friday, May 13. Ministers drawn from various countries across the region are partaking in the Kenyan …