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Severe drought is driving displacement towards Baidoa as child malnutrition rises, water access tightens and humanitarian services struggle to reach everyone who needs help.
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Crisis timeline
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A stabilisation centre reports treating 400 children with severe acute malnutrition and complications in June, compared with 143 in January. The centre treated 1,405 children during the first half of 2026, 177% more than during the same period a year earlier.
Source: Save the Children
The Somali Disaster Management Agency reports delivering food assistance to vulnerable families in Baidoa as part of its response to the ongoing drought.
Source: Somali Disaster Management Agency
Save the Children and Somali partners announce extended health, nutrition, water, sanitation, protection and education services across seven drought-affected districts, including Baidoa.
Source: Save the Children
The IPC projection for April–June places six million people in Crisis-level hunger or worse, including 1.9 million in Emergency. Burhakaba district in Bay Region faces a risk of famine under a plausible worst-case scenario.
Sources: IPC, Somalia's government and United Nations agencies
The declaration follows failed rains, water shortages and mounting impacts on food security, livelihoods and displacement.
Sources: Federal Government of Somalia and humanitarian agencies
Verified emergency facts
National figures below are dated projections, while the Baidoa caseload comes from one treatment centre. They should not be combined into a single live total.
IPC national projection covering April to June 2026.
National acute-malnutrition estimate for 2026.
One Baidoa stabilisation centre during June 2026.
Why help matters now
Repeated poor rains have damaged crops, reduced pasture, killed livestock and raised the cost of food and water. Families who move towards Baidoa can arrive with few assets and become dependent on already stretched services.
Nutrition treatment, food assistance, safe water, sanitation, healthcare and protection must continue while updated assessments establish how conditions changed after the April–June projection period.
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Food-security classifications cover defined analysis periods. The six-million and 1.9-million figures refer to the national IPC projection for April–June 2026, while the 2026 child-malnutrition estimate covers the year. New assessments may revise those figures.
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