Somalia Archives - CARE https://www.care.org/news-and-stories/emergency/somalia/ Fighting Poverty and World Hunger Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:45:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 The human cost of funding cuts: Lives and futures at risk in Somalia https://www.care.org/news-and-stories/somalia-funding-cuts-lives-futures-at-risk/ Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:04:02 +0000 https://www.care.org/?p=46267 Somalia is plunged into a devastating humanitarian catastrophe as critical funding cuts slash food aid and close health clinics. Families are starving, children are wasting away from severe malnutrition, and mothers are forced to walk miles just to find water. Without urgent support, millions face death, displacement, and shattered futures.

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]]> What famine feels like https://www.care.org/news-and-stories/what-famine-feels-like/ Fri, 13 Sep 2024 02:47:12 +0000 https://care.org/?p=39540 A deeply personal story of living through famine as a child in Somalia, and now working to stop it around the world as an adult.

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]]> Where climate loss and damage means life and death https://www.care.org/news-and-stories/where-climate-loss-and-damage-means-life-and-death/ Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:43:47 +0000 https://www.care.org/?p=33763 At COP28, world leaders are talking about climate "loss and damage" while the people of Somalia are living it.

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]]> Once-in-a-century floods are ravaging Somalia. Here’s how you can help. https://www.care.org/news-and-stories/once-in-a-century-floods-are-ravaging-somalia-heres-how-you-can-help/ Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:11:50 +0000 https://www.care.org/?p=32900 After enduring drought and climate effects for years, Somalia now faces a once-in-a-century flood disaster, with over a million affected.

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]]> What about Somalia? https://www.care.org/news-and-stories/what-about-somalia/ Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:34:27 +0000 https://www.care.org/?p=27265 For the past two years, I have seen communities across Somalia that have lost everything and do not know where the next meal will come from. My team and I have been raising the alarm for more than a year on the impending drought, always haunted by the 2011 famine in Somalia that led to the loss of a quarter of a million lives. When the crisis began, we were hopeful that the global community would spring into action to keep history from repeating itself. But we were wrong. Statement followed statement, photo followed photo, and urgent interview followed urgent interview, but two years later the Somalia response is still underfunded. And the situation is getting worse.

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]]> Drought in Somalia: “A nightmare repeating itself” https://www.care.org/news-and-stories/drought-in-somalia-a-nightmare-repeating-itself/ Thu, 08 Sep 2022 15:42:27 +0000 https://www.care.org/?p=23503 After four failed rainfall seasons & two locust infestations, there is imminent risk of famine in Somalia. Nurta Hassan Hussein, along with hundreds of thousands of others, have been displaced in search of food and water.

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]]> Drought in Somalia: ‘If things go on like this, we will also lose our lives’ https://www.care.org/news-and-stories/drought-in-somalia-if-things-go-on-like-this-we-will-also-lose-our-lives/ Fri, 26 Aug 2022 16:39:00 +0000 https://www.care.org/?p=23219 In a good rainy season, Asha Mohammed, 43, can harvest her tomatoes every three weeks and sell 18 kg for around 12 euros. But for the second year in a row, it has rained far too little in Somalia. Now, Asha has to buy tomatoes herself from the next town, and her village doesn't have enough water in its tanks even to drink. The villagers must rely on expensive water trucks from the nearest town.

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]]> Somali Drought: ‘Every month, we get less to eat’ https://www.care.org/news-and-stories/somali-drought-every-month-we-get-less-to-eat/ Tue, 23 Aug 2022 22:57:51 +0000 https://www.care.org/?p=23138 In a village in Somalia hit hard by drought, Ardo Dhunkel, 60, runs a small store with the help of a small savings and loans group set up by CARE. She sells food, detergent, shoes and other small daily necessities. The villagers are former livestock farmers, most of whom have lost their animals due to the drought.

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]]> Somalia drought: “Climate change has been reality for us for a long time.” https://www.care.org/news-and-stories/somalia-drought-climate-change-has-been-reality-for-us-for-a-long-time/ Thu, 11 Aug 2022 22:16:47 +0000 https://www.care.org/?p=22880 The global hunger crisis is worsening. While the war in Ukraine is causing food and gas prices to rise around the world, the effects of climate change are also becoming increasingly apparent – especially in countries of the Global South such as Somalia in East Africa.

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