Crisis hunger levels worsen in Somalia
NRC Somalia Country Director Mohamed Abdi’s statement on IPC hunger results released today
New Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) data just released shows 6 million people in Somalia are facing crisis levels of hunger or worse, exceeding earlier predictions and with conditions expected to worsen further without urgent action.
The Norwegian Refugee Council’s Somalia Country Director Mohamed Abdi said: “Six million people facing crisis level hunger in Somalia is worse than what was predicted, and the figures will keep rising.
“Communities in Burhakaba are on the edge of famine right now and could cross that line by June. Meanwhile, Somalia is absorbing an economic shock on top of a hunger crisis: fuel prices up 150 per cent, basic food staples up 50 per cent since the Hormuz Strait closure. Only 15 per cent of the humanitarian response is funded. We are watching this deteriorate in real time while the resources to stop it are not there.”
