Recent arrivals outside their makeshift shelter in an IDP camp/File Photo/Ergo Iqro Abdi Farah has been unable to cook a decent meal for her 12 children since June, when they arrived in Raage-Iidle camp on the outskirts of Beledweyne, after … Continued
Quarter of Somalia’s population displaced, highest figure ever recorded in East African nation, says Islamic Relief Mohammed Dhaysane MOGADISHU, Somalia, A quarter of all people in Somalia are now displaced due to drought and conflict, as the country’s displacement crisis … Continued
Somalia Humanitarian Fund allocates $25M, while UN Central Emergency Response Fund contributes $18 million as part of its global ‘famine prevention’ allocation Mohammed Dhaysane MOGADISHU, Somalia, The Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF), a multi-donor country-based pooled mechanism established to allocate … Continued
A US aid agency is suspending food aid to Ethiopia, because it says donations are being diverted from those in need. Ethiopian government agencies and the military are behind the scheme, according to a leaked memo. Some 20 million Ethiopians, … Continued
ADDIS ABABA, (Xinhua) — The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations said Monday that ongoing drought in several parts of Ethiopia have killed around 6.8 million livestock. In its latest Ethiopia Humanitarian Response Plan report, FAO said … Continued
Heavy rains cause deaths of drought-weakened livestock animals Severe flooding has replaced the disastrous drought that killed millions of livestock in the Somali Region, further destabilizing an already fragile society. The flood has claimed 45 lives, displaced 35,000 households, and … Continued
MOGADISHU, Somalia– The drought affecting millions of people in the Horn of Africa has been made worse by human-induced climate change, a new study said on Thursday. The study published by World Weather Attribution, an academic collaboration studying extreme meteorological … Continued
Thousands of drought and conflict-displaced families living in camps in Luq and Dollow are sleeping without a roof over their heads, after their homes and belongings were washed away by flash floods striking southern Somalia’s Gedo region. Ambiyo Mohamed Yarow … Continued
More than 45,900 internally displaced people, mostly women, children, are in at least 13 camps struggling to access food, says MSF coordinator Mohammed Dhaysane MOGADISHU, Somalia, The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) medical charity said Tuesday that a long drought and … Continued
“We didn’t have enough to feed them and they succumbed” ByShauna Corr A mother has revealed how she had to bury her three-year-old at the roadside during their ‘long walk’ to escape climate induced starvation that killed three of her … Continued
Samira Abdi fixes worried eyes on her six-year-old son as a nurse lays him gently in a weighing basin at a nutrition centre in the Melkadida refugee camp in Ethiopia’s eastern Somali region. Samira brought him and another of her … Continued
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an East African bloc, on Monday appealed for 2.69 billion U.S. dollars in funding to save millions of people at risk of starvation in Kenya, Uganda, and Somalia due to drought. The situation continues … Continued
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