WFP Somalia Situation Report, October 2014

Highlights

 Cereal prices remain significantly higher than a year ago due to shortage of supply from local production and humanitarian assistance.

In most southern regions, cereal stocks among the poor households have already been exhausted or will run out within the next one month. Civil insecurity is continuing to reduce movement of people and goods, including food commodities, impacting negatively on trade and income opportunities in most parts of the country.

 According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 42 900 Somalis were displaced internally, mostly due

to forced evictions and insecurity during July-September.

 WFP Somalia is facing critical pipeline break in pulses which started in November.

 Pipeline breaks in nutrition products could end ongoing treatment for nearly 95,000 moderately malnourished children, effectively putting them at risk of deteriorating to severe acute malnutrition.