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Save the Children has released a new report that raises alarm about a humanitarian catastrophe in which millions of people go hungry.
Somalia is facing its worst drought crisis in a decade. Millions are affected. going hungrySave the Children’s new report shows that many people are being forced to leave their homes in search for food and water.
The international charity’s latest humanitarian assessment, which surveyed more than 12,000 people in 15 of Somalia’s 18 regions, said on Thursday the majority of families were going without meals on a regular basis.
More than a third of households had at least one person who went without food for more than 24 hours. Nearly six out of ten people reported that at least one member of their family lost their source of income due to the death or injury of livestock.
According to an assessment done in November 2021, almost 700,000 camels and goats, sheep, and cattle died due to drought-related causes during a two-month period.
(Al Jazeera)“The ultimate culprit is climate change,” Mohamud Mohamed, Save the Children’s country director in Somalia, said in a statement.
“Somalia has always had droughts, and Somalis have always known how to deal with them – they struggle, they lose livestock, they count their losses, and then they bounce back. The gap between droughts is shrinking. It’s a killer cycle and it’s robbing Somali children of their future.”
Somalia is currently in severe drought, which is causing the death of cattle. [Courtesy: Save the Children]‘Drier than ever’
Conflict-hit Somalia ranks among the world’s most vulnerable nations to climate change. It has suffered three severe drought crises within the last decade, beginning in 2011 and continuing in 2016 2021.
The United Nations declared a famine for Somalia in 2011, with 3.7 million people facing food insecurity due to insufficient food. The latest food security projections for 2012 show that 4.6 Million Somalians will experience crisis to emergency-level levels of food insecurity between February to May.
Only 2.3 percent of the UN appeal for almost $1.5bn assistance to respond to the crisis has been met by donors, Save the Children said, warning that there was only “a narrow window to prevent a major humanitarian disaster in Somalia”.
(Al Jazeera)Omar, a Somalian citizen living in Beledweyne in southern Somalia, stated that charity children were only being fed one meal per day.
“We are able to survive day by day during the previous drought, but this one is drier than ever, with water being harder to find,” he said. “People might die in this drought if we can’t find help.”
The UN warned that 100,000 people had fled their homes last year due to the dire situation.
Save the Children urged the Somali government not to neglect humanitarian response and to ensure the current safety of children. Political crisisDoes not hinder humanitarian aid delivery for affected children and their family.
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