Somalia malnutrition response hit by funding cuts: MSF

MSF says US support for aid agencies in Somalia fell from about $70 million last year to no funding this year, while other Western donors have also reduced contributions, leaving humanitarian organisations struggling to respond as needs increase.” MSF says the humanitarian crisis is being compounded by shrinking donor support, raising fears of a repeat of Somalia’s 2022 near-famine as malnutrition rates continue to rise.“We surveyed 888 households, and in this we found that at least one in every second child is malnourished, and of which at least one in every four children has severe acute malnutrition,” said Isah Mohammed, Baidoa project medical referent.