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During 2021–2023, Somalia confronted its most severe drought in forty years that affected over 7.8 million people —about half of Somalia’s population. [3] As of 2024, drought-related impacts still continue to affect 4.4 million individuals across Somalia, who face including acute food insecurity.
On 4 March, Somalia's prime minister Hassan Ali Khaire announced that at least 110 people died due to hunger and diarrhoea in Bay Region alone. [6] The FAO Representative for Somalia, noted that the situation in many rural areas, particularly Bay, Puntland is starting to look "worryingly like the run-up to famine in 2010-2011". [7]
Consequently, numerous independent relief agencies ventured into famine affected zones to provide relief, as opposed to UN relief organizations who argued that insecurity precluded their presence. [28] This was further compounded by serious organizational infighting between relief agencies in Somalia during the spring and summer of 1992.
In 2006, an acute shortage of food affected the countries in the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Djibouti and Ethiopia), as well as northeastern Kenya.The United Nations's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimated on January 6, 2006, that more than 11 million people in these countries may be affected by an impending widespread famine, largely attributed to a severe drought, and exacerbated by ...
The International Committee of the Red Cross has been operating continuously in Somalia since 1977, when famine and the Ogaden War caused humanitarian crises. In the case of 2006, their mission has been similarly set by alternating periods of severe drought and flooding, and calamities caused by man-made war.
Bob Geldof has pushed back against claims he’s a “white saviour” for organising the 1985 Live Aid concert.. Geldof, now 72, and fellow musician Midge Ure organised a major multi-venue ...
Famine in South Sudan [175] Famine in Somalia, due to 2017 Somali drought. Famine in Nigeria: South Sudan, Unity State, Somalia, and Nigeria. 2020–present Famine in the Tigray War: Tigray, Ethiopia: 150,000–200,000+ [176] 2021–present 2021– present Madagascar famine: Madagascar: 2021–present Aftermath of the War in Afghanistan ...
Johnny Somali, an American YouTuber known for his inflammatory stunts, became the center of a South Korean investigation that could keep him trapped in the country for a while. The streamer, whose ...