The Situation
- More than 11 million people in the Horn of Africa require food assistance due to the drought. WFP has declared a corporate emergency, elevating the crisis to the highest level of action. Read more
- The United Nations says that famine exists in two regions of southern Somalia: southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle. Across the country, nearly half of the Somali population – 3.7 million people – are now in crisis, of whom an estimated 2.8 million people are in the south. Read news release
- WFP is reaching 1.5 million people in Somalia now, and is scaling up to reach anadditional 2.2 million people in the previously inaccessible south of the country.Read more
- A WFP-chartered aircraft carrying 10 metric tons of specialised food to combat malnutrition in children has departed Nairobi for Mogadishu. The food will be distributed through health centres and by WFP partners in the Somali capital as part of a scaled up feeding programme for families fleeing the severe drought.
- WFP plans to deliver 100 metric tons in a series of flights to Mogadishu, enough to give35,000 malnourished children the life-saving treatment they need for a month.
- WFP is very concerned about the incorrect and damaging perception generated by inaccurate television reports regarding food stocks in Mogadishu warehouses allegedly not being distributed. Read more
- Malnutrition rates are very high among refugees from Somalia - especially children - who have been crossing the borders of Kenya and Ethiopia in large numbers.
- As the number of hungry people rises, there is a greater need for fortified, supplementary food products to combat malnutrition, especially in children
- It costs an average US $0.50 to feed a beneficiary in the Horn of Africa for one day. This is based on the average cost of our operations across Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia.
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