Acute Food Insecurity Classification
Heavy rainfall and flooding across Somalia – exacerbated by the lingering effects of previous droughts – have driven 4 million people (21 percent of the population) into high levels of food insecurity, classified as IPC Phase 3 or above (Crisis or worse) between January and March 2024. Of th [...]
Jan 2024 / Jun 2024
Acute Malnutrition Classification
An estimated 1.7 million children aged from 6 to 59 months face acute malnutrition between January and December 2024, including 430,000 who are likely to be severely malnourished. Overall, the analysis findings shows that high levels of acute malnutrition persist in many areas. Of the 50 population [...]
Jan 2024 / Dec 2024
Acute Food Insecurity Classification
Despite the positive impact of the 2023 Gu rains and sustained humanitarian assistance, the levels of acute food insecurity are projected to remain high. Between October to December 2023, 4.3 million people are expected to face Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or worse outcomes. This includes over 1 million peo [...]
Aug 2023 / Dec 2023
Acute Malnutrition Classification
Despite the positive impact of the 2023 Gu rains and sustained humanitarian assistance, the levels of acute food insecurity are projected to remain high. Between October to December 2023, 4.3 million people are expected to face Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or worse outcomes. This includes over 1 million peo [...]
Aug 2023 / Dec 2023
Acute Malnutrition Classification
Nutrition surveys conducted in late 2022 and March 2023 to point to high levels of acute malnutrition in many areas, with most population groups across Somalia would facing Critical (IPC AMN Phase 4) or Serious (IPC AMN Phase 3) levels of acute malnutrition through June 2023. These results remain un [...]
Mar 2023 / Jun 2023
Acute Food Insecurity Classification
Despite some improvements in the country’s humanitarian crisis, approximately 6.6 million people across Somalia are projected to experience high levels of acute food insecurity classified in Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or above through June 2023. The three areas identified as at Risk of Famine in the las [...]
Mar 2023 / Jun 2023
Acute Food Insecurity Classification
Significant efforts in the scale-up of multi-sectoral humanitarian assistance, supported by slightly more favourable than previously foreseen rainfall performance, have contributed to a moderate improvement in food security and nutrition outcomes. However, the situation remains at critical levels. [...]
Jan 2023 / Jun 2023
Acute Malnutrition Classification
About 1.8 million children under the age of five in Somalia will likely suffer from acute malnutrition over the course of 2023 and are in need of treatment. Of these, nearly 478,000 children are likely severely malnourished. Results from 31 integrated surveys conducted between October and Decembe [...]
Feb 2023 / Jun 2023
Acute Food Insecurity Classification
In the period October - December 2022, about 5.6 million people across Somalia are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, classified in Crisis or worse (IPC Phase 3 or above). Among these, 1,5 million people are classified in Emergency (IPC Phase 4) and 214,000 in Catastrophe (IPC Phase [...]
Oct 2022 / Jun 2023
Acute Malnutrition Classification
Based on the results from 25 integrated food security, nutrition and mortality surveys conducted by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) and partners in June and July 2022 and subsequent IPC acute malnutrition analysis conducted in August, the total acute malnutrition burden for Som [...]
Jul 2022 / Dec 2022
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