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Most Recent Disaster Declaration:
Complex Emergency, 10-7-2010
Since 1991, widespread violence, endemic poverty, recurrent droughts, and floods have generated a complex emergency in Somalia. From December 2006 to January 2009, fighting between the Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG), backed by Ethiopian forces, and armed militias opposed to the TFG led to further deterioration in humanitarian conditions. Following January 2009 Ethiopian troop withdrawals, conflict between armed militia groups in Somalia continues to displace populations and limit humanitarian access to affected areas. As a result, more than 600,000 Somali refugees have fled the country and approximately 1.4 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) remain uprooted within Somalia, including long-term IDPs and those displaced by recent fighting.
The combined effects of consecutive seasons of failed or poor rainfall, conflict, rising inflation, displacement, and diarrheal disease outbreaks have exacerbated food insecurity and resulted in increased acute malnutrition rates. Humanitarian agencies report that one in six children in Somalia is acutely malnourished while one in 42 is severely malnourished. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit, approximately 2 million people continue to require humanitarian assistance in Somalia as of August 2010. U.N. and partner agencies are coordinating efforts to improve access to affected populations, but insecurity and targeted attacks against relief staff continue to hinder the provision of emergency assistance.
On October 7, 2010, U.S. Chargé d’Affaires, a.i., Lee A. Brudvig redeclared a disaster due to the ongoing complex emergency in Somalia. In FY 2010, USAID/OFDA provided more than $16 million to support agriculture and food security, economic recovery and market systems, health, humanitarian coordination and information management, nutrition, protection, and water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions, as well as logistics support and relief commodities.
Additional Disaster Declaration:
Complex Emergency, 10-1-2009
Since 1991, widespread violence, endemic poverty, recurrent droughts, and floods have generated a complex emergency in Somalia. From December 2006 to January 2009, fighting between the Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG), backed by Ethiopian forces, and armed militias opposed to the TFG led to further deterioration in humanitarian conditions. Following January 2009 Ethiopian troop withdrawals, conflict between armed militia groups in Somalia continues to displace populations and limit humanitarian access to affected areas. As a result, approximately 530,000 Somali refugees have fled the country and nearly 1.6 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) remain uprooted within Somalia, including long-term IDPs and those displaced by recent fighting.
The combined effects of consecutive seasons of failed or poor rainfall, conflict, rising inflation, displacement, and diarrheal disease outbreaks have severely exacerbated food insecurity and resulted in a significant increase in acute malnutrition rates, according to the 2009 U.N. Consolidated Appeals Process for Somalia. In August 2009, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit projected that more than 3.6 million people would require humanitarian assistance in Somalia through December 2009, representing a 17 percent increase since January 2009. U.N. and partner agencies are coordinating efforts to improve access, but insecurity and targeted attacks against relief staff hinder the provision of emergency assistance to affected populations.
On October 1, 2009, U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Michael E. Ranneberger redeclared a disaster due to the ongoing complex emergency in Somalia. In FY 2009, USAID/OFDA provided more than $9 million to support agriculture and food security, economic recovery and market systems, health, nutrition, protection, and water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions, as well as the provision of logistics and relief commodities.
For information on additional USAID disaster responses in Somalia, please see OFDA Annual Reports.
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