Somalia

Situation Report
Analysis
Famine declaration

The severity of needs has increased in the worst affected areas.

While the famine projection calls for priority to be given to the two districts in the Bay region, millions of other people in other areas of Somalia are facing Crisis and Emergency levels of food insecurity. As of August, an estimated 7.8 million people - nearly half of the estimated total population - are struggling to cope with the worst drought in four decades, with more than 1 million displaced in search of food, water, pasture and livelihoods: almost three-quarters of them since the beginning of the year. From October to December, approximately 6.7 million Somalis are expected to face high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above). This includes 2.2 million people who are expected to be in Emergency (IPC Phase 4) and at least 300,000 people in Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5). While this number is lower than the 7.1 million projected as of July, the severity of needs in the most affected areas has increased.

Between July 2022 and June 2023, approximately 1.8 million children under age 5 are expected to face acute malnutrition, including over 513,000 who are likely to be severely malnourished. The total acute malnutrition burden represents 54.5 per cent of the total population of children in Somalia. Already over 730 children have died in nutrition centres in the first seven months of 2022, according to Nutrition Cluster partners. Many more are believed to have perished before they could reach help. Additional and sustained funding is critical to sustain humanitarian response and save lives and livelihoods in Somalia.

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