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SOMALIA - Impact of drought: Banadir and Bay regions - +1 M

27 Jan 2023

FOOD INSECURIT Y IN THE COUNTRY The drought has disrupted the population’s main sources of livelihoods The humanitarian crisis generated by the drought could worsen in 2023, as FROM A PRIL–JUNE 2023 (agriculture, livestock, and pastures), resulting in the displacement of many the humanitarian response remains underfunded. [...] The capital city of Mogadishu occupies the majority of According to reports by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit in Somalia, the July the region (Govt. [...] In 2022, there was a sudden increase in the In December 2022, which marks the end of the Gu rainy season, Bay region did not receive number of drought-displaced people arriving in the camps in the region, where food insecurity any rain (FEWS NET 23/12/2022). [...] The price of safe water Baidoa is the district with the second-largest number of IDPs after the capital Mogadishu was six times higher in December 2022 compared to the beginning of the year (IPC 13/12/2022 (MSF 12/10/2022). [...] This IDPs and refugees figure adds to the already existing crisis of the lack of access to education in the country; in 2019, only 30% of school-age children were receiving formal education (Concern Worldwide US The current devastating drought has led to the displacement of entire communities across 03/12/2019).
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