WFP warns funding shortfall fueling Somalia’s nutrition crisis

MOGADISHU, June 28– Somalia’s food and nutrition crisis is deteriorating faster than anticipated due to failed rains, funding cuts, and spillover effects from the conflict in the Middle East, the World Food Program (WFP) warned on Sunday.

In its latest update on the food security situation, the WFP warned that emergency-level hunger (IPC Phase 4) now affects two million people, a sharp twofold increase from last year’s figure, indicating a significant deterioration in food insecurity.

It warned that current humanitarian food assistance reaches only 450,000 people, leaving a staggering 76 percent of those in IPC Phase 4 without support through August.