Summary
The World Food Programme (WFP) warns that its emergency food assistance to Somalia might stop by April due to funding shortages. Somalia is facing severe hunger influenced by poor rainfall, conflict, and reduced humanitarian aid. About 4.4 million people, including nearly one million facing severe hunger, could be affected if support ends.
Key Facts
- The World Food Programme's aid in Somalia might end by April due to a lack of funds.
- Somalia is experiencing a severe hunger crisis after two failed rainy seasons and ongoing conflict.
- 4.4 million people in Somalia, about a quarter of the population, face severe food scarcity.
- The WFP has decreased the number of people receiving food aid from 2.2 million to about 600,000.
- Nutrition programs have dropped from helping 400,000 women and children to 90,000.
- Somalia is highly vulnerable to changing climate patterns, facing droughts and floods.
- WFP warns that without immediate action, the situation could have devastating effects.
- Doctors Without Borders reports a rise in children suffering from severe malnutrition and other preventable diseases in Somalia.
