World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

WFP has provided food assistance to more than 1.2 million people in Somalia since the current crisis began. WFP is continuing to assess humanitarian needs and will scale up to reach more people around the country in areas where we have access. Other agencies have taken responsibility for getting food assistance to areas of the south that we cannot reach and WFP urges donors to support them.  The number of people now in need of food relief due to drought, conflict and high food prices in Somalia is approximately 4 million, according to the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) for Somalia and the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET). Their data indicate that famine conditions have receded in three areas but continue to prevail in Middle Shabelle as well as among IDP populations in Afgoye and Mogadishu.  Hundreds of thousands of Somalis have fled to refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia during the current crisis while tens of thousands of others have poured into the capital, Mogadishu, in search of help.