By Kalkidan Yibeltal & Danai Nesta Kupemba More than 50 people have died in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray and Amhara regions amid drought and an aid freeze, local officials have told the BBC. The Horn of Africa has had five failed rainy seasons since 2019, according to the UN. The US and UN suspended aid earlier...
Around 80 people in Kenya and Somalia have lost their lives in less than a month as a result of floods caused by heavy rains, which come on the heels of East Africa’s worst drought in decades. By:Kelvin Ogome Humanitarian organisations in East Africa report that close to a million people have been displaced in...
The United Nations has described floods that uprooted hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia and neighbouring countries in East Africa following a historic drought as a once-in-a-century event. Around 1.6 million people in Somalia could be affected by the heavy seasonal downpours, which have been worsened by the combined impact of two climate phenomenons,...
SOUTH-WEST STATE, Somalia – Weeks turned into months, and still the rains never came. As the drought in Somalia scorches the land, the chances for a family’s survival wither and die like crops and livestock, forcing them to search for lifelines elsewhere. In February, Hodan Khalif*, 14, moved to an internally displaced camp (IDP) 15 km...
BAIDOA, Somalia– It was in the afternoon on Oct. 4 that heavy rains started in the city of Baidoa, which houses over 600,000 internally displaced people dependent on UN and other international humanitarian assistance. The downpour affected shelters hosting a total of 86,700 displaced people across 136 sites throughout the city, which is the administrative...
Meet Fartun, Nasteho and Halima, who are all fighting to secure a brighter future for their children in Somalia. In Somalia, families are currently facing a catastrophic food crisis. This is the result of a severe and prolonged drought and decades of conflict that have destroyed crop production and made it almost impossible for herders to...
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 fleeing their rural home due to an unforgiving combination of drought and insecurity. She and...
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 hits record levels, according to a UK-based humanitarian organization. The Islamic Relief said in its...
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 funding for the most urgent interventions in Somalia, has allocated $25 million to provide life-saving...
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, who are facing severe food shortages because of war and drought, will be affected. The...