Drought and increasing food prices are putting millions of people in Somalia at risk of famine, several United Nations agencies have warned, and the country is not receiving the amount of aid it needs to address the crisis, as other global emergencies are being funded.
Six million Somalis, or about forty percent of the population, are “on the brink”, said the World Food Programme, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the OCHA humanitarian agency and UNICEF Tuesday, calling the coincidence of poor rainfall and increased global food prices a “perfect storm that could very quickly lead to famine”.
