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  1. Somalia is in the midst of its fifth consecutive failed rainy season. By mid-2023, over 8 million people—nearly half of the population—will be living through crisis levels of food insecurity as the country faces an impending famine. What does a food insecurity crisis or "impending famine" in Somalia look like?
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  3. The causes of famine. Famines result from a combination "triple failure": Production failure: In Somalia, a two-year drought - which is phenomenal in now being the driest year in the last 60 - has caused record food inflation, particularly in the expectation of the next harvest being 50% of normal. Somalia already had levels of ...
  4. Famine looms in Somalia, but many 'hunger hotspots' are in deep trouble 21 September 2022 Humanitarian Aid The number of people facing life-threatening levels of hunger worldwide without immediate humanitarian aid, is expected to rise steeply in coming weeks, the UN said on Wednesday , in a new alert about looming famine in the Horn of ...
  5. About the crisis in Somalia A cycle of drought and floods has brought Somalia to the brink of famine. An estimated 6.9 million people - nearly two out of five Somalis - need humanitarian support and 4 million people - 21% of the population - are faced with severe food shortages in the country. The 2020-2023 drought, considered the most severe in four decades, brought the country to the ...
  6. Three failed rainy seasons. With decades of conflict, recurrent climate shocks and disease outbreaks, including the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the humanitarian situation in Somalia was already grave. Even before the current drought, an estimated 7.7 million Somalis were in need of humanitarian assistance and protection this year - up 30 per cent in one year.
  7. In Somalia alone, 7 million people (out of a total population of 16 million) could be at risk of famine in the next two months if aid is not scaled up to meet skyrocketing needs. In 2011, some 250,000 people in Somalia—half of whom were children—died in a famine that followed three consecutive seasons without adequate rainfall. Less than ...
  8. In Somalia, a full-blown famine has been narrowly averted for now, but the hunger emergency has not gone away, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday. In an update on food insecurity in Somalia, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ( OCHA ) said that famine had been avoided because host communities and relief teams had helped ...
  9. With famine knocking at the door Baidoa, South-West Somalia - As a strong breeze swirls over the dusty expanse of land that is now a camp for internally displaced persons in Baidoa, the flapping of loose plastic sheeting from the hundreds of makeshift tents is drowned out by the playful shouting of excited children. The curious children crowd ...
  10. oxfamamerica.org

    In Somalia, as many as 5.6 million people are "experiencing high levels of food insecurity" and and there is an increasing risk of famine in some areas in 2023. About 20 percent of the people affected by drought in Somalia are in the northwest coast in Somaliland, according to the United Nations.

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