This Flash Update is prepared by OCHA, in coordination with the Health and WASH Clusters in Somalia and covers the situation as of 24 March 2024. The next update will be issued as soon as additional...
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Somalia Situation Report, 17 Mar 2024
HIGHLIGHTS ASG for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy ERC, Ms. Joyce Msuya and the Deputy DG of the Food and Agriculture Organization Ms. Beth Bechdol visited Somalia from 7 to 9 March - Four million...
Somalia Monthly Humanitarian Update, February 2024
This report is produced by OCHA Somalia in collaboration with humanitarian partners. It provides information on the humanitarian situation across Somalia in February 2024. HIGHLIGHTS • Assistant...
Joint press conference at conclusion of visit to Somalia by Ms.Joyce Msuya, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, and Ms.Beth Bechdol, Deputy Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization
Assistant Secretary-General Musya: Good afternoon, members of the media and those who have joined online. Assalam alaikum. We have spent, and my colleague Beth [Bechdol, Deputy Director-General of...
Joint UN mission to sound alarm on humanitarian crisis in Somalia
7 March 2024, New York/Rome - With nearly 7 million people in Somalia – or two out of every five people – in need of life-saving assistance in Somalia this year, and 1.7 million children likely to...
Humanitarian partners seek US$1.6 billion to assist 5.2 million people in Somalia in 2024 [EN/SO]
Mogadishu, 30 January 2024 – Today, the United Nations in Somalia, humanitarian partners together with the Federal and State Governments released the 2024 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP),...
Somalia Monthly Humanitarian Update, January 2024
This report is produced by OCHA Somalia in collaboration with humanitarian partners. It provides information on the humanitarian situation across Somalia in January 2024. HIGHLIGHTS Humanitarian...
Somalia Situation Report, 24 Jan 2024
HIGHLIGHTS At least 9 people died of Acute Watery Diarrhea, cholera and 474 cases were reported during 2nd week of 2024, as the outbreak spreads in Somalia, according to the Health Cluster. The...
Somalia: 2024 AWD/Cholera outbreak Flash Update No.1 (As of 22 January 2024)
This Flash Update is prepared by OCHA, in coordination with the Health and WASH Clusters in Somalia and covers the situation as of 22 January 2024. The next update will be issued as soon as...
Somalia Situation Report, 26 Dec 2023
HIGHLIGHTS Displaced households are gradually returning to their homes owing to dry conditions that have prevailed across most parts of the country. The number of people affected by floods is...
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Seven things you need to know about climate change in Eastern and Southern Africa
“The climate crisis is without doubt a humanitarian crisis […] it is hitting the most vulnerable people first, worst and longest – people, communities and countries already weakened by violence,...
Somalia: 2023 Deyr Season Floods Situation Report No. 5 (As of 24 December 2023)
This report is produced by OCHA Somalia in collaboration with humanitarian partners. It provides information on the flood emergency as of 24 December 2023. HIGHLIGHTS • Displaced households are...
Somalia Situation Report, 11 Dec 2023
HIGHLIGHTS Dry conditions were observed across Somalia between 5 to 10 December. Partners reported that water is receding in many areas. Along the Juba River, water levels have dropped. As of 8th...
Somalia: 2023 Deyr Season Floods Situation Report No. 4 (As of 10 December 2023)
This report is produced by OCHA Somalia in collaboration with humanitarian partners. It provides information on the flood emergency as of 10 December 2023 HIGHLIGHTS Dry conditions were observed...
Somalia Situation Report, 4 Dec 2023
HIGHLIGHTS The number of people impacted by heavy Deyr rains across Somalia has increased to over 2.4M, according to the authorities, with over one 1M displaced & 110 killed in 36 districts. Concern...
Somalia: 2023 Deyr Season Floods Situation Report No. 3 (As of 3 December 2023)
HIGHLIGHTS • The number of people impacted by heavy deyr seasonal rains and floods across Somalia has increased to over 2.4 million, according to the authorities, with over one million displaced and...
Somalia in the midst of disaster as devastating rains and floods spread
Mogadishu, 30 November 2023 – Six months after Somalia emerged from a historic drought that pushed the country to the brink of widespread famine, another climate shock has struck as heavy rains and...
Somalia: 2023 Deyr Season Floods Situation Report No. 2 (As of 24 November 2023)
HIGHLIGHTS Heavy rains and flooding have extended to more areas of Somalia, with 33 districts now deluged compared to 21 two weeks ago; and have swept away 14 more people, pushing the death toll to...
Somalia: Battered by climate extremes
Somalia recently emerged from its longest and most severe drought in four decades, but it now finds itself devastated by heavy rains and floods. Just one month into the deyr rainy season (October to...
Somalia: 2023 Deyr Season Floods Situation Report No. 1 (As of 17 November 2023)
HIGHLIGHTS The number of people displaced by heavy rains and floods in Somalia has nearly doubled in one week from 334,800 to 649,000. Over half a million more people have been affected, bringing the...