According to the UN’s humanitarian affairs agency, drought-related malnutrition has resulted in the deaths of at least 200 children in the African nation since January.
According to a UN agency, nearly two million children in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia require immediate treatment for severe acute malnutrition out of the total number of hungry children in Africa.
Since January, at least 200 malnourished children have died in Somalia, an East African nation experiencing “catastrophic food insecurity” for the first time since 2017, according to the UN agency for humanitarian affairs.
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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) reported on Monday that “more than seven million people are affected, up from 6.1 million in May, and over 805,000 are displaced.”
The United Nations says that families affected by the drought are on the verge of famine as a result of an unprecedented fourth consecutive rainy season in eight regions of the country, up from six regions in May of this year.
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The United Nations stated that its humanitarian partners have launched the Drought Response and Famine Prevention Plan for the period of May to December 2022 in response to the drought in order to facilitate the expansion of life-saving and life-sustaining aid to prevent famine in the nation.
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According to the United Nations, the plan aims to reach 6.4 million people and costs $993.3 million to implement.
“3.9 million people have received life-saving assistance since January. However, the statement stated, “The scale of the ongoing response and funding from the international community are insufficient to sustain the lives of all those at risk.”
As a result of the current crisis, the United Nations stated, inadequate and late funding is preventing an appropriate increase in assistance.
The United Nations stated, “The current funding situation is comparable to 2011 when funding was slow to come in until the declaration of a famine with devastating consequences” (435.5 million dollars, or 30 percent received).
More than 7 million people had been affected by the severe drought as of June 30, up from 6.1 million in May, and over 805,000 had been displaced.
The UN stated that as its partners transition from drought response to famine prevention, a massive increase in humanitarian needs is required.
It made the statement just a few hours after Somalia asked the world for help to deal with the deadly drought.
After a historic fourth failed rainy season since 2020, 7.1 million people—45 percent of the population—are already acutely food insecure, and hunger is growing.
“The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has confirmed pockets of catastrophic food insecurity affecting more than 213,000 people for the first time since 2017,” the United Nations stated.
One of the worst droughts caused by the climate crisis in Somalia in four decades has devastated the nation.
More than 20,000 additional deaths per month occurred in southern and central Somalia between May and October 2011, during the main famine.
