Food Security Cluster

ADDIS ABABA — More than one million cattle have died due to the ongoing severe drought in Ethiopia’s Somali region. The drought, which is said to be the worst drought that hit Ethiopia’s southeastern Somali region in 40 years, has severely affected the region’s pastoralist community as more than one …

Nairobi – The Horn of Africa is in the grip of the worst drought in decades – parching landscapes, heightening food insecurity and causing increasingly widespread displacement. An urgent and efficient humanitarian response is crucial to avoid large-scale deterioration throughout the region expected by mid-year. An estimated 15 million people are …

MOGADISHU — Worsening drought is putting some areas across Somalia at risk of Famine (IPC Phase 5) through June 2022 if the current April to June Gu season rains fail, food prices continue to rise sharply and humanitarian assistance is not scaled up to reach the country’s most vulnerable populations. …

MOGADISHU —  The United Nations relief agency said it is scaling up humanitarian interventions to help 4.9 million of the most vulnerable people in Somalia. Adam Abdelmoula, the UN resident and humanitarian coordinator, said the levels of need are rapidly rising, surpassing available capacities and resources. “Around 4.9 million people …

MOGADISHU — A ship loaded with 572 tonnes of relief aid, including basic food supplies sufficient to cover the needs of 600,000 people, sent by the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) has reached the Somali capital, Mogadishu. The ERC sent the ship to help displaced people and those affected by the …

MOGADISHU  — More than 60 aid agencies operating in Somalia on Wednesday appealed to the international community to work to avert a possible famine in Somalia in 2022 due to worsening drought conditions. The country directors of aid agencies including World Vision, Save The Children, Norwegian Refugee Council and ActionAid …

MOGADISHU — Turkish nongovernmental organization (NGO) the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) has provided food packages to 427 families in need in Somalia during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the charity said Monday. “We are in the capital Mogadishu. We have delivered food and greetings to the families who are …

NAIROBI — More than a quarter of Africa’s people – 346 million – are facing a food security crisis that has millions of families skipping meals every day, an alarming hunger situation that risks intensifying in the coming months, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said today. The …

NAIROBI — The wind is dry and the heat is punishing in Kapetadie, a remote village in Turkana County in northern Kenya near the border to South Sudan. Parched earth stretches as far as the eye can see, littered with the carcasses of dead cows, goats and other livestock who …

MOGADISHU — Somalia’s Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management(MoHADM) has on Thursday dispatched a consignment of food aid to Burhakaba and Galkayo districts. This is part of the Federal government ongoing emergency relief assistance and responses to people who have been hardly hit by the drought in the Horn …