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Alarming low funding jeopardizing life-saving assistance to millions in Somalia

Mogadishu, 28 June 2021 – A humanitarian funding crisis in Somalia has left 5.9 million vulnerable children, women and men at risk of losing access to some or all of the life-saving and protection services they desperately need. If action is not taken to address this funding gap, the cost could be catastrophic. “Humanitarian needs have increased significantly in 2021 but the funding to respond to…

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September 18, 2021
Rural Development

A decade after its famine, Somalia is again nearing crisis with women and girls hardest hit

Mogadishu: As Somalia commemorates 10 years since the last devastating famine in 2011, a new CARE survey of over 2,000 people in the country finds that women and girls still remain amongst those most affected by the current hunger crisis, and there is a risk of all the gains attained in previous years being lost if funding is not urgently increased and prioritized for local, women-led…

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September 18, 2021
Rural Development

Seasonal Forecast – Summary for Decision Makers (October to December 2021)

Rainfall and Temperatures The upcoming rainfall season, October to December, is an important season for Uganda, Kenya, northern Tanzania, southern and central Somalia, southern Ethiopia and South Sudan, Rwanda, and Burundi. For some of these countries, this is the main farming season and it represents up to 70% of the total annual rainfall. A drier than usual season is forecasted across Eastern Africa from October to…

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September 18, 2021
Rural Development

EU Support Brings Hope for the Internally Displaced People in Mogadishu

Over 1.1 million people of the Somali population live in protracted internal displacement. Another one million Somalis are in displacement in neighbouring countries and more than one million people have been displaced since November 2016 due to drought and conflict, bringing the total displaced population to approximately 30% of the current estimated population of Somalia.

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March 26, 2018
IDPs / Rural Development

Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia deeply concerned about large-scale destruction of IDP settlements on the outskirts of Mogadishu

Mogadishu, 1 January 2018: The Deputy Special Representative of the SecretaryGeneral, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Mr Peter de Clercq, has expressed deep concern over reports of the unannounced destruction of internally displaced persons (IDPs) settlements, along with humanitarian infrastructure, in K13, Kahda District of Banadir, Mogadishu. Read More

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March 26, 2018