2023 UNICEF Somalia Annual Report
Executive Summary
Highlights
Children in Somalia live in a protracted complex emergency where half the population (5.1 million children) requires humanitarian assistance, and 3.8 million people are internally displaced (1.7 million children). In 2023, children bore the brunt of concurrent crises comprising a historic drought, floods, disease outbreaks and conflicts. Following interagency efforts to avert famine, in September 2023 UNICEF deactivated the Level 3 emergency scale-up initiated in 2022 due to a drought that had left one in six children acutely malnourished. Amid the scale-down, flooding associated with the El Niño climate phenomenon hit many parts of Somalia during the October–December Deyr rainy season. By December, El Niño had affected 2.5 million people (1.5 million children), causing at least 40 deaths (40 per cent children) among other consequences.
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