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NewsletterGIEWS Special Alert No. 353 - The Federal Republic of Somalia, 24 November 2025
Drought severely affecting crops and livestock
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No results found.Drought conditions in the country's southern key cereal producing areas during October and the first half of November 2025 have negatively impacted the establishment and development of Deyr crops, expected to be harvested in January 2026. Dry conditions also prevailed in northern and central pastoral areas, already affected by two consecutive poor rainy seasons, worsening water and pasture shortages and severely affecting livestock. The drought is expected to aggravate the already difficult food insecurity situation, with about one-quarter of the population currently estimated to face severe acute food insecurity. An urgent scale-up of livelihood support and food assistance is needed to avert the collapse of local livelihoods, widespread and severe food shortages, and loss of lives. -
NewsletterGIEWS Special Alert No. 349 - West Africa-Sahel, 16 May 2022
Food insecurity at unprecedented levels in most coastal and Sahelian countries
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An estimated 27.3 million people are facing acute food insecurity between March and May 2022. This number is projected to increase to an unprecedented 38.3 million between June and August 2022 if humanitarian interventions are not scaled up. The alarming high level of food insecurity is due to localized shortfalls in cereal production in 2021, worsening conflicts, high food prices and macroeconomic challenges compounded by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of food insecure people could increase above initial projections in the second half of 2022 as spikes in food and fuel prices, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, are likely to worsen access to food. Further aggravating risk factors to food insecurity are the high prices of agricultural inputs, notably fertilizers, persisting insecurity and forecast localized unfavourable weather conditions that could have additional negative impacts on agricultural production. -
NewsletterGIEWS Special Alert No. 343 - Southern Africa - 26 February 2018
Erratic rains and an intense dry period in January lowers 2018 cereal production prospects
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Erratic precipitation and well below-average rains in January have lowered Southern Africa’s overall 2018 cereal production prospects. Current national maize stocks are forecast at above-average levels due to the record outputs in 2017; this should partly cushion the expected production declines in 2018. Reduced harvests are still foreseen to intensify food insecurity in 2018, increasing the number of people in need of assistance; however, humanitarian needs expected to remain below the levels of 2016.
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