Food Security Cluster

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – A devastating drought in Somalia could leave some 2.2 million people – almost 18% of the population – facing severe hunger in July-September after poor harvests, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Wednesday. The UN agency issued a special alert on Somalia, indicating that …

ERIGAVO (SoOHA) – Hopes of a good harvest of dates after a year-long wait for farmers in a village in northern Somalia’s Sanaag region were dashed last week after a fire spread through their farms reducing everything to ashes. 50-year-old Habib Haji Yusuf was expecting to harvest dates from his …

LASANOD (SoOHA) – Mohamoud Diriye, 25, used to herd his own livestock, but for the time being, he is happy enough being paid to look after somebody else’s camels as he plans a way to rebuild his family’s past life. Mohamoud’s motivation in taking a job as a camel keeper …

GAROWE (SoOHA) – Hopes of a good yield to bring a return on his more than $2,500 farm investment have been dashed for Somali farmer Ahmed Hussein Isse, after long periods of drought in his village in Garowe. Ahmed, who is assistant chief of the village of Timir, 78 km …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The continued drought in Somalia has left an estimated 2.2 million people in urgent need of food, the Norwegian Refugee Council has said. The humanitarian organization said that the below average rains since last October has rapidly led to a deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Somalia. …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The United Nations in Somalia has raised alarm over what it termed as low humanitarian funding response amid a deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa nation as drought effects continue to bite. UNSOM deputy George Conway has said the anticipated funding under the Humanitarian Response …

DHUSAMAREB (SoOHA) – Five villages to the east of Dhusamareb town in central Somalia’s Galgadud region have emptied as the pastoralist families living there have run out of water. Four boreholes in the area have dried up, leaving the villages of Qansahley, LabiRaac, Aweys-Raac, Meehanaw, and Galo without any access …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The U.N. estimates 1.7 million people in Somalia will “face crisis and emergency levels of food insecurity until June” after a second consecutive bad rainy season caused livestock losses and failed crops. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Wednesday that this represents a 10% increase in food insecurity. …

GAALKAYO (SoOHA) – Over 60 goats and sheep have died and hundreds are infected in a sheep measles outbreak in northern Somalia’s Mudug region, according to local herders. Sheep measles, which is caused by a tapeworm parasite, hasspread to Bajela, Eldibir, Budbud, and Hingod villages in Mudug region. The director …

HUDUR (SoOHA) – Large numbers of people have been displaced and livestock have died in severe drought conditions being witnessed in part of Bakool region in Somalia’s South West state. The local authorities in Qurajome, in the north-eastern part of Elbarde district, say the situation is deteriorating as the rains …