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In Numbers
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1.5 million people assisted
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US$ 15 million delivered via cash-based transfers
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3,332 mt of in-kind food assistance distributed
US$ 225 million net funding requirements for the next six months (May – October 2025)
Situation Update
• The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Technical Working Group in Somalia published updated food insecurity and malnutrition analysis results on 29 March, factoring in reduced funding for humanitarian assistance and anticipated increases in displacement, driven primarily by conflict and drought. Multi-hazard displacement projections estimate over 230,000 people could be displaced between April and June. Drought is expected to be the primary driver, responsible for 69 percent of these movements, especially affecting areas such as Banadir, Baidoa,
Kismayo, Luuq, and Afmadow, which could collectively receive over 95,000 new arrivals. Conflict is projected to account for the remaining 31 percent of displacements, primarily in Bari, Hiraan, and Middle Shabelle. Women and children are expected to comprise 76 percent of those displaced.
• Between April and June 2025, an estimated 4.6 million people in Somalia are projected to face severe impacts of hunger and acute food insecurity (IPC phase 3 or higher), marking a rise from the 4.4 million previously estimated in January. Apart from dwindling availability of funds, anticipated below average Gu season (April-June) rainfall, rising food prices, continued conflict and insecurity, and localized flooding persist as key drivers of food insecurity.
• The estimated acute malnutrition burden, from January to December 2025, has risen to 1.8 million children under five, including 1.3 million likely to face moderate acute malnutrition.
This marks an increase of nearly 47,000 children from the previous estimate of 1.7 million. The worsening malnutrition is driven by growing hunger gaps due to reduced food assistance, inadequate child feeding practices, limited access to clean water, and the closure of health facilities and nutrition programmes in Somalia