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| A displaced family eats a hot meal in a Mogadishu feeding centre (WFP/David Orr) WFP Scaling Up To Meet Needs In Somalia |
A displaced family eats a hot meal in a Mogadishu feeding centre (WFP/David Orr) WFP Scaling Up To Meet Needs In Somalia
The number of people now in need of food relief due to drought, conflict and high food prices in Somalia is approximately 4 million – or more than half of the country’s population. WFP is currently providing food assistance to nearly one million people in Somalia and will scale up its operations during coming months to reach some 1.9 million people in those parts of the country where we have access. Other agencies have taken responsibility for getting food assistance to areas of the south that we cannot reach and WFP urges donors to support them. Famine conditions now prevail in six southern areas and are expected to spread further throughout the south during coming months, according to The Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) for Somalia and the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET). Hundreds of thousands of Somalis have fled to refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia during the current crisis while tens of thousands of others have poured into the capital, Mogadishu, in search of help.
