From now until September, the UN estimates that more than 7 million people across Somalia are projected to experience high levels of acute food insecurity, with more than 213,000 facing “catastrophic hunger,” unless urgent support is provided.
Millions of people are going hungry. Children are becoming malnourished to the point of needing to be admitted to “nutrition clinics.” The International Rescue Committeethat it saw an 818 percent increase of severely malnourished children being admitted to one of its clinics in the course of just four months.
From now until September, the United Nations estimates that more than 7 million people across the country are projected to experience high levels of acute food insecurity, with more than 213,000 facing “catastrophic hunger,” unless urgent support is provided,“We must be clear,” said Abukar Mohamud, IRC’s deputy director of programs for Somalia, “if famine is declared, it will be too late for hundreds of thousands of people who are already living on so little food that they are in physical pain,...
This week, newly released data from the U.N. Refugee Agency and the Norwegian Refugee Council shows that 1 million people already have been displaced by the drought, which has been in progress since January 2021. A drought like this one hasn’t occurred in 40 years.Mohamed Abdi, the Norwegian Refugee Council country director in Somalia. “Starvation is now haunting the entire country.
As in many disastrous circumstances caused by climate change, women are being hit hardest. They are at particular risk of malnutrition and death in Somalia. The group Action Against Hunger writes that “when lower yields spell a drop in income and food scarcity, women and girls are often the first to eat less. Lack of land rights leave women unable to develop land to meet and adapt to their nutrition needs, and they are often excluded from decisions on how to overcome climate challenges.
And while Somalia is suffering the worst of the drought and hunger, the crisis is ravaging the entire Horn of Africa, with “over 200,000 already living in the most extremes of hunger,” said Mohamud. The problem has only been exacerbated by the war in Ukraine — Somalia imports 90 percent of its grain from Russia and Ukraine.of war. The Horn of Africa drought may lead to a competition for resources, which then can cause violence.
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