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The walls worse famine in a century is looming over parts of somalia as the horn of africa, braces for its 5th consecutive seasons of drought. The war in ukraine has caused food and supply prices to skyrocket. Pushing many people to the brink, United Nation says time is running out to save millions of people from starvation, and is seeking more than 1000000000. 00 to provide humanitarian relief. Have a listen to what the stake in somalia, what can be done, what must be done to help millions of people in need amid this terrible dr. Crisis is a massive scale up of humanitarian assistance. As the human World Food Program weve already scaled up to reach more people than ever before, but we need the funding to sustain and increase the scale up. One of the major challenges is getting this aid to the people who need it most, especially in areas where access is difficult because of conflict and insecurity. We are families that have lost livestock. We have millions of people, weve been internally dipped, displeased, and we are calling for donors and International Community to provide more supports to provide more funding so that we can scalable innovations so that okay, so what most people in so lets look at 7 more lives joining us today from smalley, lan, nemo hassan, shes the director of the somalia and g o. Consortium. We also have holden ali, the director of the Durable Solutions unit in mogadishu. Whos at the u. N. In new york this week, an ester, the gumby, or the assistant professor at the university of illinois. Now, before we get to our guest, i want to show you the audience of map of whats happening in the country. Now the map on the left, that one right there, actually, youre looking at it now that shows where we are up to the end of this month in september, in what you see as a country in crisis. But once we roll into october through december, much of the orange becomes red. And you see an emergency. You see red flags for millions of lives at stake. And let me show you why. Lets go to my computer here. This is a tweet from Samantha Power at u. S. A. I d. The map that has some of the blue and green on here is 2017. This is the last time that somalia faced a possible famine and actually didnt go through the famine. You see some blue and green there. Look at the difference between 2017 in 2022. What 5 seasons of drought have done to this country . It has read like its on fire, nemo ear in the region. Whats going on there . Whats happening . Good evening, josh. Thank you for having me. I think you actually painted a very stock situation and some of the moments were over 90 percent of the country is experiencing extreme drive conditions. With about 7800000 people close to 50 percent of the population. Now facing crisis level insecurity, children are already dining. Some parts of the Country Partners on the ground have been calling out for support to support the lifesaving interventions up and last scale. And i think it will show show the 27th. The difference between 20172011 was also another worst crisis with water 1000000 people at least 133000 of them children. Im but 2022 where we are now is actually unprecedented. The worst weve seen, this is long, im conflict. You have the impact of cobra. One thing you have this drought which is full consensus, i think the, the western 40th and thats taking place at the moment. And if we dont scale up the rate that the situation is getting, we will see how much more death than on in 20112017. Their Global Community reacted well in time and a beth and family. And we need to do the same. Oh much so some video here, this is from the World Food Program and reuters and i want to warn our viewers. Its not easy to look at. This is rock to see, but i dont want to be so for was that we dont see whats actually happening on the ground in somalia. Oh, did you tell me what . Whats it actually like for the families there right now . What are they going through . I think misery and miserable is not enough. Its actual hell on earth for some families at the moment and the pictures that youre showing, i mean, i came back to somebody on 122011 at the height of the famine in its starting to look like that. We havent seen really dramatically the same numbers, but the images that are starting to show are heading in that direction. And as you pointed out on the map earlier in terms of the extreme levels of the drought and in the cumulative additives of consecutive weight failures in little security, the impact is gonna be much greater because communities have lost the resilience to withstand a lot of these are shops that are happening right now, so if, if we dont respond immediately i think we are going to see maybe a double what we saw in 2011 so that you know, those images that youre showing now, even in not thats not just the rural areas were seeing images of that in lot of the show, the capital of the country. How on earth i think yeah, i was actually gonna ask you. I also want to bring him some boards from. Are you to community . This is louis phil says, how was spearman still a thing in this day and age and what ways can world powers help to solve issue were gonna get to solving at toward the end of the show. But 1st i want to say, well how, how does this keep happening . Why is this happen . Plea exactly, that is the reason. And we know why its hot and its because every year when droughts happen in the home of africa, all we do is jump out of the aid. We put a bonded, we put a bonded and we know that we dont do any long term concrete actions. And for example, we us, for right now, the u. N. Is before a to 1000000. With that thought 18000000. 00, its all going to be spent on immediate to a vot junglin from guy. But why are we not looking concrete measures . Why it a we have in drought, Climate Change. Most of the communities are depending on grain fed agriculture to produce crops that livestock to i, depending on great their failing, we cannot be and completely andre. So it is important to realize that all we are doing is every year having this temporary, ah, measures not to concrete measures when even if we have concrete measures, what were going to look at as raja, what is happening to see what is walking, what is not walking so that we can skill this best practices again when it happens next year after he brought in the you, well we actually have a comment from the Un Commission for human rights ravine, a sham dasani. Heres what she had to say about it. The ongoing conflict with elisha bab complicates the humanitarian response in terms of gaining access to many of those who are in need. Children, women, and Older Persons are bearing the brunt of the crisis. As the majority of people displaced by drought, this makes children more vulnerable to abuse and exploitation, to recruitment and to use by armed forces and groups, and at risk of sexual violence. The drought is already resulting in increase fighting over ever scarcer resources, which has led to larger displacement of communities and an increase in violence against women and children. Her name is sanmar. He wanted to jump in there, but what i was picking up from asked her was sounds like, if we keep putting the band aid on it that this is gonna get worse year after year. Does that . Does that ring true to you . Absolutely. I totally agree with that, and i think, i mean obviously somebody has been in crisis for the last 50 years and you know, this area, the 100 practica is not prone to drought, but the current Climate Crisis actually be proportionately affecting communities and especially the poor communities. Who are being hit by one crisis of the other. And i totally agree that we are focus the money that i see the responses to, to, to focus on the band aid humanitarian life saving. What we need to do is to invest in those salt on Long Term Development programs. We need to go beyond the humanitarian response and approach this problem with which assessment will come back again and again from a development angle. You know, we need to be certain questions and how can somebody adapt to Climate Change, which actually is the lease contributor to the Current Crisis and how can it shell, its populations from the negative impact of Climate Change. How resilient are the economy and public finances to Natural Disaster and Climate Change . These are the questions that need to be answered by all stakeholders, including donors and the somebody government to ensure that these fundable communities can withstand. These constant shocks are predictable. Coming back, i want to get you in on this, but guys, i want to share something on my computer real quick because it seems to me that somalia is often at the tail end of what crises are happening around the rest of the world. Seemed to like land and hit harder in somalia. So for example, the war in ukraine is having a mass effect effect in somalia. But just this week, the cabinet ministers of ukraine have allocated approximately 12000000. 00 to provide humanitarian, a t, t o. P, and somalia, which suffer from view shortage. This is coming through odessa. Well, how long should wait until the an 8 tonight is the question. That is the question. Every step called every leader. Imputed dos, who are attending the own gullies . Yeah, those are the questions that we should be asking and demanding answers, immediate answers and answers that have concrete action. So as i said, we did ask this question, does anyone ga, youre at the u. N. G o r r u, as in those questions in our people responding. So if i dont pick up where esther left off and also maybe the video, i think its easier to justify the problem that has some ideas crisis right now to security, etc, etc. I think theres a failure in terms of the 8th system in the infrastructure that is in somalia. We are missing the point. I mean, obviously right now were about saving lives and obviously we need to raise funds to quote unquote, save nice of beyond the saving lives. I. Ready our government, the Somali Government needs to start acting and asking the right question around how that money that the the country is allocated is being spent. We know on the ground that the money that some money receives is not efficiently spent on resilient building programs, water infrastructure, diversification of a likelihoods, and etc, etc. And i think its so long as we keep sidestepping the real problems, were going to be yet another famine in couple of years. The issue of climate is just one issue that has derailed the other interventions in somalia, obviously now with exacerbating everything. But there is a system infrastructure issue in terms of from donor giving money to you and agencies implementing programs and the lack of sort of read a long term strategist around. How do you listen . Somali is a income or, or lame. No, its comes, comes from life stock in farming yet we have been very little to support those communities who have been very little to actually maybe move this communities from, from those particular skills to other skills or they can start, you know, living life rather than being saved all the time from 2011 till now. The displacement capone of somebody has doubled. So now nearly 40 percent of the population was are one in to be some mileage is displaced by the end of this years drought, or hopefully not a famine. Were going to much more people displace. Yes, we continue to fund emergencies rather than Sustainable Development programs. I think so long as youre not talking about that, were not talking about the issue. Yes, we raising the issues we are in every single thing. So. 8 then and now how sitting we are asking in we are advising to invest differently and i think its time also on the government end to say no, this is what some money needs aligned. The investment with the National Development now with no home solution that are tailored for local problems and as long as were not doing that, we will be back on this show in couple of years. Talking about the same issue and put, you know, i think you, youre right, youre right about the one of the things i keep on you go and read and read right now i day or every one to open and read about do all we leave is the problem, the problem where i, wed not treat talking about the solutions, what i the end, what is being done, even the journalist that report all you report is images of people that are dying at the up woke. Its all ah, lights at them. Look at the projects that are walking that can then be scaled. Can we, how equal reporting to be able to see . Because at the end of the day, i think when we just report on one side the ether, the actual, then everybody sees its doom and gloom. Theres nothing that we can do. I think also austin, investors of reality news. Right. If we were wondering about the famine and drought in small you today, we would be reporting about floods in disease in pakistan today. And if it wasnt about that, it would be about war and war crimes and ukraine. I mean, we dont report it all the lines or take off and dont crash. Thats just the nature of the media, right . Yes. But i saw then i think need to challenge ourselves. What is it . N keels to start actually sharing. What are these projects, initiatives that are walking in the ground on ground solution so that they can scale down. Okay, good. And doesnt just look no less. Com, melissa, and weak in as them in the projects. I way, way im going to set you up my message. Sure. Nimo, because i want to bring in some voices from youtube and you guys gotta hear this. Theres actually some distrust of the n jose in youtube and him. I think you might be best to address this, but um we have muse yusef, who says only somalian, people can help migration f efforts uh hold on. I want to get to the eras as hussein says, the aid industry has raised billions. Wheres all that money gone . Ah, theres lots of questions about the ngos, the money in a distrust there. Kit, me more. Can you address that please . Thank you very much. Im. I think i think everyone hear the panel on the video some questions, you know, i mean there be the key questions that we need to ask ourselves across the spectrum where the governments donors all in joes. And i think we really need to critically look at what weve done correctly. And i think we have done a lot rightly because many, many people where were safe and happy and safe, and somebody has its dependent on aid, any type of aid, whether to monitor in development. And i think its really important we are asking those critical questions across the spectrum. I certainly think the government needs to take a bigger role in ensuring that so the probably finance is kind of also been stunned. Its really good to hold each other accountable on an exam and exactly how that moneys been spent. Like i said earlier, what is really important is king at the time of the modeling, the finance model, the moment is focused on humanitarian, which is, and those life saving activities. And i, like i said that the system he met him system has been a stretch over the last 30 as well. Whether its in constant crisis, in some of the if poor communities have had the time to recover. 2011, you have the standing by the time 2017 hit. People have fairly recovered from the famine and the impact on their livelihood. 201718. 2019. You have the look to actually definitely to peoples crops 2021 end of 2019. You have to make the global over hitting the poorer community. 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