Somalia’s Hunger Crisis Deepens as Drought, Conflict and Sharp Aid Cuts Leave Millions at Risk - Commonwealth Union
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Extreme drought is driving people from their homes in southern Somalia. The Somali government warned in February that 6.5 million people were facing some form of food shortage, and the situation has worsened since then. Aid is running out of money, partly because the United States has stopped contributing to it under President Donald Trump. According to Doctors Without Borders, the volume of international aid has fallen by 80 percent year-on-yea…
Somalia’s Hunger Crisis Deepens as Drought, Conflict and Sharp Aid Cuts Leave Millions at Risk - Commonwealth Union
Somalia has been undergoing severe challenges in the past few months and years. Amidst these challenges, the primary issues are drought, conflict, and a sharp decline in humanitarian funding. The lack of funding has been the main reason millions of people are grappling to access food and the essential healthcare needed to live their normal day-to-day lives. Aid organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has stated that the funding which was mea…
Somalia: Don’t wait for famine to be declared | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Half of the children screened in displacement sites in Baidoa, southwestern Somalia, are acutely malnourished and one in every four is severely malnourished, according to a malnutrition survey carried out in July by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). “Behind every statistic is a child,” says Allara Ali, MSF’s project coordinator in Somalia. “What we are seeing is shocking and far beyond the threshold of an extremely critical…
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