🌧️ #𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚 | 'Somalia is on the frontlines of the climate crisis; it's a sobering sight on the ground.'

Petroc Wilton spoke with Waihiga Mwaura 🇰🇪 on BBC
#FocusOnAfrica about the 'Human Cost' of the floods.
Watch: youtu.be/SyPxPxnSWiY?si… via YouTube

#ClimateCrisis #COP28

In #Somalia , severe droughts nearly led to famine, and now deadly floods exacerbated by #ElNiño are compounding the crisis.

Petroc Wilton witnessed the devastation and highlights how WFP's #AnticipatoryAction programme averted the worst for affected communities ⬇️

𝗤𝘂𝗼𝘁𝗲 | '𝑊𝘦 𝘩𝑒𝘢𝑟𝘥 𝘵ℎ𝘦 𝘮𝑒𝘴𝑠𝘢𝑔𝘦, 𝑡𝘩𝑎𝘵 𝘧𝑙𝘰𝑜𝘥𝑠 𝑤𝘦𝑟𝘦 𝘤𝑜𝘮𝑖𝘯𝑔.' Meymuna Ali in #Somalia prepared for the floods thru informed decisions.

Petroc Wilton explains how World Food Programme's #AnticipatoryAction empowers communities.

#ClimateActionNow
#COP28UAE

After severe droughts, heavy rains have brought devastating floods to #Somalia 🇸🇴

📽️Watch Petroc Wilton of WFP Somalia speak with CBC News about how #climate extremes are driving the country's hunger crisis.

Full interview ➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=VZ-Ts6…
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#WATCH It's a race against time across the #HornOfAfrica as World Food Programme predicts that up to 20 million drought-affected people could be facing severe hunger by the end of the year.

DW News visited #Somalia where hunger has doubled since the beginning of 2022 👇

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'The driest conditions to hit the #HornofAfrica in four decades killed Hamdi’s animals and uprooted her young family.'

READ Fred Harter's piece for The Times and The Sunday Times on drought in #Somalia , as World Food Programme is forced to prioritize assistance due to dwindling resources 👇

thetimes.co.uk/article/2e0efb…

Stop scrolling. Let's talk about #Somalia .

🚨🚨 Families are at risk of famine if rains continue to fail, livestock continue to die, food prices soar, and humanitarian relief can't reach those in need.

#FightFamine

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#SOMALIA : In 2011, the world said 'never again.' Yet Somalia is on the brink of famine again. 6M people are marching toward starvation. 330K children are at risk of dying now. This drought isn't letting up.

And, it gets worse: World Food Programme has less than half the $ we need to save lives.

Baardheere is one of the areas worst hit by #droughtinSomalia . 1000s of newly displaced people are hungry, malnourished & in critically urgent need of humanitarian support. World Food Programme and other UN in Somalia agencies are operating in Baardheere - but funding & time are running out.

Our Chief international Correspondent lyse doucet gives her reaction to the announcement of World Food Programme as winner of #NobelPeacePrize

Thrilled + humbled that we at @wfp won the 2020 #NobelPeacePrize . Recognizes the work of many friends and colleagues, often in the toughest places in the world, to get lifesaving food to 100 million+ people. Hope it brings more focus on the 690 million suffering from hunger.

Ambassador William Carlos and World Food Programme Uganda country director Elkhidir Daloum signed a partnership agreement today, finalising Irish Foreign Ministry contribution of €2 million to food & cash assistance for refugees in Uganda.

Shot and produced this last week, to show how prepacking food is helping to protect over a million #refugees in #Uganda from #Covid_19 - with a lot of hard work from the World Food Programme team in Uganda to make it happen.

It’s a huge privilege to be working with Seme and Malish, two #refugees (and World Food Programme storytellers) in #Uganda who run a youth group to help traumatized kids in their community. Really happy to have had the chance to interview them and write this piece.

Delighted to hear of Malish James’s success in this global photo competition, and privileged to be able to work with him in Bidibidi refugee settlement, #Uganda ! This award is a testament to his tremendous commitment to photography, film and journalism as a World Food Programme Storyteller.

I wrote this after a mission to Bidibidi #refugee settlement, one of the largest in the world, to see how World Food Programme World Food Programme_Africa is keeping the people we serve safe from #COVID19 #coronavirus :

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I was able to get to Bidibidi this week, to document how World Food Programme is protecting our staff, our partners and the people we serve from #COVID19 #coronavirus - while continuing to distribute life-saving food to over 1 million #Refugees in #Uganda . #COVID19 UG

#ZeroHungerwalk we are headed now for lumumba avenue in kampala.our theme: healthy diets for #zerohunger

Empowering children musically is another way of allowing them to express them selves and identifying their potential contribution to the development of their country. #musicisourewapon# I CAN SOUTH SUDAN. I am planting seeds of love.