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Somalia faces another hunger crisis and the UN food agency head says it has far less funds to help
- Somalia faces a severe hunger crisis: about 6 million people are acutely food insecure and roughly 1.9 million children under 5 are projected to suffer acute malnutrition this year.
- The World Food Programme has only about one-tenth of the funding it had in 2022, so it’s doing the “bare minimum” and many nutrition centers have closed or cut services.
- Heartbreaking scenes at clinics and camps — mothers walking hours with malnourished children and crowded treatment centers — highlight the human toll.
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