Country: Somalia
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Please refer to the attached file.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Authorities are appealing for urgent assistance for hundreds of thousands of people, especially in northern regions, who are facing increasing hardship due to ongoing severe drought conditions.
- Humanitarian partners and the authorities are preparing to respond to the imminent risk of floods and storms associated with the projected El Niño phenomenon during October to December.
- Successive shocks—severe drought, flooding, diminishing humanitarian funding, and sustained conflict—have eroded household coping capacities for millions of Somalis.
- The overall humanitarian response remains extremely limited. From January to May, 507,000 people were reached with multi-cluster assistance in 64 districts. In the 21 priority districts, coverage remains below 25 per cent.
- The Somalia Humanitarian Fund has stepped up support to Buurhakaba district, Bay region, which is at risk of famine, providing US$4.7 million, including a recent US$2 million Reserve Allocation to scale up assistance.