Overview
- At least 4.4 million people face crisis-level food insecurity, including nearly one million experiencing severe hunger, according to WFP.
- WFP says its resources will be depleted within weeks, putting remaining food and nutrition operations on track to stop by April without new funds.
- Emergency food assistance has been cut from 2.2 million people in early 2025 to just over 600,000, with nutrition support for women and young children reduced to 90,000 by December.
- The hunger emergency stems from two failed rainy seasons, conflict and a sharp decline in humanitarian financing after Somalia declared a national drought emergency in November.
- WFP warns an assistance shutdown would carry humanitarian, security and economic consequences beyond Somalia, while MSF reports rising child cases of severe acute malnutrition and other preventable diseases.