Floods causing widespread damage and hunger. The situation is expected to worsen in December as more rain is forecast. Action Against Hunger is calling for increased funding to address the crisis.
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Floods causing widespread damage and hunger. The situation is expected to worsen in December as more rain is forecast. Action Against Hunger is calling for increased funding to address the crisis.
Humanitarian partners, authorities and local communities have stepped up assistance to affected people, reaching at least 743,000 people across Somalia with some form of aid.
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Three years of drought have left over 1.9 million children at risk of dying from severe malnutrition as vulnerable communities have lost cattle, crops, and entire livelihoods.
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It is estimated that more than 46 million people in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda are in Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Phase 3 or above.
The HRP aims to assist four million people in the most dire need and to reduce the loss of life for 3.1 million of the most severely vulnerable people, including one million children under five.
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The International Rescue Committee has been responding to COVID-19 as well as the two outbreaks and is now calling for a rapid increase in funding to scale up its response and mitigate disease spread.
Authorities and local partners are responding, but more assistance is urgently needed, especially food, shelter/NFIs, WASH, health, nutrition assistance, and COVID-19 awareness.
Last year, the country reported 3,069 suspected cases of cholera, including four associated deaths, while in the first quarter of this year, 3,193 suspected cases, including 15 deaths, were reported.
The total number of people in need has increased by 19% (one million people), while the total requirements have decreased by 4% from $1.08 billion in 2019 to $1.03 billion in 2020.
Much of Somalia's recent past has been marked by recurrent humanitarian needs linked to climatic shocks, armed conflict, protracted and continued displacement.
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This represents the highest figure in decades. The United Nations and partner organizations will require $28.8 billion to assist the most vulnerable people.
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The country has been struggling with extreme weather changes, violence and disease for nearly 30 years and is increasingly subject to climate shocks that are worsening humanitarian crises.
Save the Children says neighbourhoods are underwater, with families escaping on tractors, via donkey cart, boats and on foot. Thousands are living in makeshift camps on higher ground.
In the first half of 2018, the humanitarian situation in Somalia remained grave due to residual impacts of drought, ongoing displacement, conflict and seasonal floods.
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CERF funding enabled 12 UN agencies together with 589 partners to provide life-saving assistance in 2016 and 2017 to 22.5 million people in humanitarian emergencies in 47 countries.
Thousands remain in urgent need of humanitarian assistance along the north-western coastline of Somaliland in the wake of Cyclone Sagar, the strongest storm to ever make landfall in the region.
At risk from the fighting is not only the welfare of hundreds of thousands of people and the possibility of mass displacement, but the remarkable progress that both Somaliland and Puntland have made over the years.
Flash and river floods, caused by heavy rainfall, have affected more than 695,000 Somalis, and displaced nearly 215,000, in the past few days.
Catastrophic flash flooding has forced 175,000 people out of their homes, leaving them more vulnerable to malnutrition and diseases such as AWD and cholera.
In Baidoa town alone, about 174,000 people have been affected by flooding. More than half the shelters cannot withstand heavy rains, and many have already been washed away.