Re-advert: CONSULTANCY SERVICES FOR GREEN CLIMATE FUND (GCF) CONCEPT NOTE DEVELOPMENT reliefweb.int - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from reliefweb.int Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
2021 Somalia Humanitarian Needs Overview
Format
Context, Shocks, and Impact of the Crisis
Somalia’s prolonged humanitarian crisis is characterized by ongoing conflicts, climate-related shocks, communicable disease outbreaks and weak social protection mechanisms. Since the beginning of 2020, three additional shocks have contributed to a deterioration of humanitarian conditions: Extensive floods,
Desert Locust infestations, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
These compounding shocks have exacerbated humanitarian needs among a population already living under the strain of widespread poverty and decades of armed conflict and insecurity.
Climate change continues to be a major contributing factor to displacement and food insecurity in Somalia.
Increasingly erratic weather patterns and climatic shocks have led to prolonged and severe drought conditions and floods, with devastating humanitarian consequences. Flooding displaced 919,000 people in 2020 and destroyed essential infrastructure, p
NAIROBI (Xinhua)
The UN refugee agency said on Monday that it had helped 35,192 Somali refugees to return home since the exercise begun almost two years ago. The UNHCR said 327 returnees were supported to voluntarily return to Somalia capital Mogadishu by flight from Nov. 1 to 15. “Flight movements have now resumed and are currently operating three days per week. In total, as of Nov. 15, 35,192 Somali refugees had returned home since December 8, 2014, when UNHCR started supporting voluntary return of Somali refugees in Kenya, out of which 29,091 were supported in 2016 alone,” it said in its latest report. Kenya in collaboration with the UN refugee agency are working on a
Somalia: UN Agriculture Agency Says Extreme Food Insecurity Threatening 2.6 Million People
Somalia: UN Agriculture Agency Says Extreme Food Insecurity Threatening 2.6 Million People
In a new analysis released on Wednesday, United Nations agriculture agency, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says poor rain fall, flooding and desert locusts are contributing to extreme food insecurity in Somalia, threatening 2.6 million people.
In a joint report, FAO warns that in the absence of large-scale and sustained humanitarian assistance “the situation could worsen through mid-2021”.
UN Deputy Special Representative, Adam Abdelmoula, who also serves as the Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the country says, “Somalia’s long-standing crises are compounded now by the ‘triple threat’ of the COVID-19 pandemic, desert locust infestations and climatic shocks.”
APO | 26 February 2021
Somalia: Urgent scaling up of emergency response needed, as 2.65 million people are projected to be in acute hunger
Over 2.6 million people in Somalia are expected to be in extreme food insecurity according to the latest joint technical assessment released by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET). The report cites poor rainfall, flooding and desert locusts among the main contributing factors… Read more on https://africa-newsroom.com/press/somalia-urgent-scaling-up-of-emergency-response-needed-as-265-million-people-are-projected-to-be-in-acute-hunger-5?lang=en
Share this: