Impending hunger: Report sees risk of famine in parts of Somalia
After months of drought, food is scarce in Somalia. Now things are threatening to get even worse. A report is talking about the risk of famine in central Somalia.
Somalia is expected to see a rise in severe malnutrition in the coming weeks and months, with a risk of famine in one region. According to the Integrated Food Security Classification (IPC), 5.1 million people were in IPC Phase 3 or higher from July to September, a 50% increase from the previous year. This number is expected to rise to 5.4 million from October to December, including nearly 26,000 internally displaced people in Baidoa.
Almost 2 million children are acutely malnourished, and 2.7 million people are at risk from impending El Niño-caused floods.
Written by urgent.news from Handelsblatt's report — not a translation of it. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
