Somalia: Cholera Outbreak - 2016-2026 Updates

Executive Summary In 2025, READO solidified its position as a leading Somali NGO, delivering lifesaving and resiliencebuilding interventions across Southwest State and beyond. Through a...

CONTEXT Somalia continues to face one of the world’s most complex and protracted humanitarian crises, driven by a convergence of conflict, climate shocks, disease outbreaks and widespread...

KEY HIGHLIGHTS • The failure of the 2025 Deyr rains is driving Emergency (IPC Phase 4) outcomes from January 2026 across large parts of northern, central, and southern Somalia, following one of the...

Somalia faces an intensifying humanitarian crisis driven by prolonged drought, conflict, and recurrent disease outbreaks. A multi-stakeholder shock analysis conducted in 2025 estimated that 7.5...

The Eastern Africa region is home to some of the world’s most severe and complex humanitarian crises, with an estimated 48.5 million people - around 20 per cent of the global caseload - in need of...

Executive Summary The Imperative for a Proactive Shift With frequent droughts and floods compounded by chronic conflict and low development levels, Somalia is exceedingly vulnerable to...

AT A GLANCE Somalia’s humanitarian crisis remains severe and protracted, driven by recurrent drought, conflict, disease outbreaks, high food prices, and declining humanitarian resource. In 2026, 4.8...

Key Highlights • Displacement is escalating, with 104,000 people newly displaced in November 2025 and 463,000 since January, driven by conflict, insecurity, and drought. As internal options shrink,...

Key Highlights Somalia officially declared a state of drought emergency in November 2025, highlighting the severity of the crisis and the urgent need for humanitarian assistance. This persistent...

HIGHLIGHTS In 2026, humanitarian conditions in Somalia are expected to deteriorate further, leaving at least 4.8 million people, including 3 million children, in urgent need of humanitarian...

Baidoa, Somalia — Gargaar Relief and Development Organization (GREDO) warns that Somalia is sliding toward a major humanitarian emergency as severe funding shortfalls, failed rains, and prolonged...

Key Highlights Figures • The Deyr 2025 rains failed widely, registering rainfall at less than 30% of the nationwide average, confirming a major seasonal failure. • Drought is most severe in Puntland...

East Darfur faced one of its most harrowing public health emergencies in recent memory. A fast-spreading cholera outbreak gripped the region, plunging communities into fear and uncertainty. Every day...

CRISIS OVERVIEW Somalia is currently experiencing its 2025 Deyr rainy season, which typically occurs from October–December and plays an important role in Somalia’s food and water security (FEWS NET...

Highlights • In Q3 2025, the Hagaa dry season brought hotter and drier conditions, and concurrent outbreaks. An estimated 6.9 million people remained in need, with 6.37 million unmet by quarter’s...

Highlights ▪ During the first half of 2025, Somalia faced overlapping shocks driven by climate-related hazards, ongoing conflict, and recurrent disease outbreaks, leaving an estimated 5.98 million...

Key Highlights • Since January 2025, an estimated 296,000 new displacements have been recorded—driven by conflict (180,000), flooding (46,000), and drought (40,000)— including 18,000 in September...

Eastern Africa continued to be home to some of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises, driven by a convergence of escalating conflicts, political instability, economic shocks, disease outbreaks,...

Key Highlights The humanitarian situation in Somalia remains highly complex, with recent events continuously exacerbating the needs of already vulnerable populations. The ongoing crisis is driven by...

I. Introduction 1. The present report, submitted pursuant to Security Council resolutions 2753 (2024) and 2767 (2024), contains updates on the implementation of those resolutions, including on the...