The Latest Breaking News from Somalia

The UN says nearly 7.1 million Somalis, almost half of the country’s population, face acute levels of food insecurity.

A toxic combination of climate emergency, conflict and Covid is pushing some of the poorest countries into an acute hunger crisis

Tenth of world’s population now chronically undernourished, with spectre of widespread famine drawing ever closer, warns report

Somalia’s president has called for assistance from Turkey to combat the effects of severe drought that is threatening the Horn of Africa

The Horn of Africa, on the eastern coast of the continent, is currently being battered by an intense and sustained drought thanks to which around 20 million people are going hungry. And, given the ongoing armed conflict in the region – particularly in Somalia and Ethiopia – safely getting nutritious…

The war in Ukraine has abruptly drawn millions of dollars away from longer-running humanitarian crises

Large areas of Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya are currently in the grip of a severe drought. An estimated 16.7 million people face acute food insecurity. That’s more than the combined populations of Austria and Switzerland.

Channel 4 news has been hit with over 100 complaints from telly fans over Jamal Osman’s 'Inside Al- Shabaab' feature. Some disgruntled viewers claimed the broadcast of of 'glamorising terrorism and promoting dangerous ideologies to young audiences'

The United Nations humanitarian agency has called for a massive scale-up in resources to save Somalia from famine.

Children starving to death ‘before our eyes’ say aid workers as G7 leaders warned only ‘massive’ and urgent funding will avert famine

Somalia is on the brink of catastrophe. A recent assessment suggests that 7.7 million Somalis need emergency aid right now, a similar number to those affected by the Ethiopian famine in 1984, one of the worst humanitarian disasters in history. About one million people died then.