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

30 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 APRIL-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. [...] 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). [...] is one of the regions receiving the most displaced people in the country, partially because it is where the capital is located, but also because some farming areas of the region are less Banadir affected than the rest of the country (OCHA 13/07/2022; The Guardian 11/10/2022). [...] 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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