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16 December 2019

Nutrition

Every child has the right to survive and thrive

Halima is eating RUTF to recover from malnutrition.

UNICEF’s Response to the Horn of Africa malnutrition crisis is named Winner in the Rapid Response Category of Fast Company’s 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards

The seventh annual awards honor creative solutions to some of the biggest issues facing us today.

A baby lays on a bed in Galkayo Hospital Stabilization Centre

12 February 2023

Breaking the Cycle

Addressing Health, Nutrition, and Education Challenges in Somalia

MUAC screening at an IDP camp.

12 October 2022

With famine knocking at the door

Children screened for malnutrition and referred for treatment

Fatuma Omar and her four children walked for three days in search of food and water and now live in Hagarka IDP camp.

05 October 2022

“My son died of hunger”

Across South-West Somalia, hungry families are making desperate journeys to urban centres.

IDPs receive trucked water supplied by UNICEF at an IDP camp in Baidoa, Somalia.

19 September 2022

“Time to act is now,” says UNICEF Emergency Director

Number of admissions is swelling at UNICEF-supported health and nutrition centres

Seven month old Fardowsa is being examined for malnutrition.

13 September 2022

UNICEF Geneva Palais briefing note on rising severe acute malnutrition for children in Somalia

This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Spokesperson, James Elder, to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

Baby in a stabilization center receiving life-saving care

As rains fail again, catastrophic hunger looms over Somalia

Food insecurity and malnutrition worsen across Somalia as risk of famine increases amid historic fourth failed rainy season.

A young girl collects water from a pump in a make shift IDP camp in Dollow, Somalia.

Joint FAO-OCHA-UNICEF-WFP Statement on the Drought Emergency in Somalia

Somalia is facing famine conditions as a perfect storm of poor rain, skyrocketing food prices and huge funding shortfalls leaves almost 40 per cent of Somalis on the brink.

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16 February 2022

Drought forces families to flee their homes in Somaliland

Desperate families are migrating in droves in search of food, water, and pasture for their weakened animals.