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Current situation
Somalia is emerging from a risk of famine which was projected in 2022, following the five consecutive failed rainy seasons - a climatic event not seen in four decades. The famine has been averted through the collaborative efforts of national authorities, communities, humanitarian partners, and with better-than-expected Gu rainfall performance. Despite the scaled-up implementation of response activities, the situation remains critical. As of September 2023, nearly 3.7 million people – 22 per cent of the population - are acutely food insecure, a reduction from 6.6 million in April 2023. The number of people experiencing emergency food insecurity has reduced by 34% from 4.3 million March 2023 to 2.8 million as of September 2023. An estimated 1.5 million children under 5 face acute malnutrition, including 331 000 who are severely malnourished. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), in Somalia, the dyer rains have intensified with heavy rains reported across Somalia affecting 1.7 million people, displacing 649000, people and led to deaths of 41 people in addition to destruction of destruction of property and food crops in field particularly in in Puntland, Galmudug, Southwest, Hirshabelle and Jubaland states. Humanitarian partners are working closely with the Government, through the Somalia Disaster Management Agency at the federal level and the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management at the state level to scale up implementation of humanitarian response activities.