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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 …

MOGADISHU —  At least three people were killed and eight others wounded when the terrorist group al-Shabaab attacked a popular hotel in the southern port city of Kismayo on Sunday, police said. Mahad Abdi, a regional police officer in Kismayo, said the attack started with bombing followed by gunfire after …

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 …

MOGADISHU — Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud launched a national tree-planting project on Friday. The National Regreening Initiative aims to plant 10 million trees across Somalia as part of efforts to boost biodiversity and climate resilience and curb deforestation amid devastating droughts. President Mohamud planted the inaugural seedlings of a …

ISTANBUL — Climate change is a “very important” issue for Somalia, which has suffered years of drought and famine, the head of the Horn of Africa country’s state-run news agency said on Thursday, hailing a forum on the environment by Anadolu Agency (AA) that he was attending. “There is drought …

MOGADISHU — Humanitarian organizations need an additional US$1 billion in funding to reach 7.6 million people targeted for humanitarian assistance in Somalia. The increased requirement for the 2022 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) comes against the backdrop of rapidly mounting needs and a corresponding scale-up in humanitarian action. “We are facing …

GENEVA — UNICEF warns that an unprecedented number of children are likely to die in drought-stricken, famine prone Somalia without greater, immediate action from the international community to provide lifesaving assistance. Somalia has endured four consecutive years of failed rains and is facing a possible fifth season of drought. This …

DOLLOW — After two days in a small Somali hospital, Abdiwali Abdi seemed to be groping his way towards some sort of recovery. The two-year-old still weighed just 4.6kg (10lb 2oz) – not much more than a healthy newborn. But he had the energy to moan now, and his mother, …