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WFP to cut food aid to Somalia by nearly 70%

Thegoodshepherd

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NAIROBI, Oct 3 (Reuters) - The United Nations World Food Programme said on Friday it will slash the number of people it supports with emergency food aid in Somalia by two-thirds to just 350,000 next month, down from 1.1 million in August, because of a funding shortfall.
The decision means that the agency will only be able to support one in 10 people who are in need of food assistance for survival, it said in a statement.

Somalia could be in a famine by Jan if this funding shortfall persists. Deeply worrying.

https://www.reuters.com/world/wfp-s...sistance-somalia-over-funding-gap-2025-10-03/

https://www.wfp.org/news/millions-somalia-risk-worsening-hunger-wfp-faces-critical-funding-shortfall
 
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Thegoodshepherd

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The rich world is cutting ODA across the board. The coming years do not look good for aid dependent countries like Somalia.
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https://donortracker.org/publications/budget-cuts-tracker


Shocked Steve Harvey GIF
 

caano_shaah

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No one to blame for this than our useless government. They had plenty of time to prepare a contingency plan but now the people will suffer. This was going to happen eventually.
 
No one to blame for this than our useless government. They had plenty of time to prepare a contingency plan but now the people will suffer. This was going to happen eventually.
Last AU mission, cutting all U.S funding, now food... doesn't look like the west has any hope left in Mogadishu. They are pivoting to PL now, as they have been increasingly photographed with U.S military officials.
 
Last AU mission, cutting all U.S funding, now food... doesn't look like the west has any hope left in Mogadishu. They are pivoting to PL now, as they have been increasingly photographed with U.S military officials.
I don’t think puntland would want to have 3 million suicide bombers on their borders. This is just Trump being an idiot
 

Thegoodshepherd

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Where does analysis like this fit into your picture of aid dependence
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https://mo.ibrahim.foundation/news/2025/demystifying-africas-dependence-foreign-aid
Somalia is just very aid dependent. 19% of GNI coming from aid is very precarious. It means we cannot feed ourselves if donor goodwill disappeared tomorrow. If a conventional war were to begin in Eastern Europe and/or Taiwan ODA could fall by >50%. That could mean a 10% contraction in GNI. This would spell famine for millions in Somalia.
 
Somalia is just very aid dependent. 19% of GNI coming from aid is very precarious. It means we cannot feed ourselves if donor goodwill disappeared tomorrow. If a conventional war were to begin in Eastern Europe and/or Taiwan ODA could fall by >50%. That could mean a 10% contraction in GNI. This would spell famine for millions in Somalia.
It doesn’t really cost that much to feed people, and somalias GNI is very undercounted.
 

Mohamedamiin120

Marxist-Leninist, Somali (Galbeed).
No one to blame for this on our useless people*

The government comes from the people.
Wow did a socialist revolt happen yesterday that I have not heard about? People's Democracy or even a fully functional Bourgeois democracy does not exist at all in Somalia, what are you talking about???
 

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