Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - Severe drought in and funding cuts are undermining lifesaving assistance in Somalia, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said on Monday.
Because of the reduction in the amount of support for aid work, food assistance has declined, health centres are closing and malnutrition is high, the UN agency warned.
OCHA said that 4.6 million people now face high levels of food insecurity while two million more are at risk from funding cuts.
Without scaled-up support, “lives will be lost and progress reversed” across the east African nation, where cash shortfalls have left one million people without food assistance every month.
The global trend seeing less humanitarian assistance has curtailed vital support for healthcare across Somalia. So far this year, it has impacted at least 150 medical facilities and left hundreds of thousands of Somalis without the medical care they need.
OCHA noted that because of the cuts, the number of people being targeted for assistance in Somalia has had to be reduced by a staggering 72 per cent.
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