WFP Acting Chief Warns Somalia Has a Tenth of the Funds It Had During the 2022 Famine Emergency

World Food Programme Acting Executive Director Carl Skau visited the Feynuus Nutrition Centre on the outskirts of Mogadishu and the town of Burhakaba on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, meeting Somali women and children displaced by drought. Skau said WFP now has roughly a tenth of the resources it had during the 2022 hunger emergency — 'we had 10 times more resources than now' — and that the agency can only provide 'the bare minimum,' restricting assistance largely to the most vulnerable children. An estimated 6 million people (about 30% of Somalia's population) face acute food insecurity, with 1.9 million children under five projected to suffer acute malnutrition and nearly 500,000 requiring urgent treatment for severe acute malnutrition, as prolonged drought, conflict-driven displacement, rising food prices, and shrinking donor funding compound the crisis.