{"id":42157,"date":"2026-08-11T14:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T12:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=42157"},"modified":"2026-08-11T14:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T12:25:19","slug":"somalia-malnutrition-response-hit-by-more-than-80-funding-drop-as-child-hunger-surges","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/somalia-malnutrition-response-hit-by-more-than-80-funding-drop-as-child-hunger-surges\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia malnutrition response hit by more than 80% funding drop as child hunger surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Funding to tackle acute malnutrition in parts \u200cof Somalia has dropped by more than 80% this year, M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF)said on Tuesday, even though one in every four children screened in displacement camps in the southwest is severely malnourished.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">MSF Health Adviser Mitchell Sangma said the United \u200bStates had cut its support to aid agencies in the country from $70 million last year to \u200bno funding this year, leaving aid groups struggling to respond as needs rise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Other Western donors \u2060have also cut funding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;This year we have admitted 22 000 nutrition cases, more than 80% higher than \u200blast year. When we need this massive scale-up in intervention measures, we are seeing less interest from donor \u200bsupport,&#8221; Sangma said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A July survey by MSF of 888 households in 14 displacement sites in Baidoa, southwest Somalia, found that one in four children was severely malnourished.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">One third of families said they were surviving on one meal a day, while \u200bonly 2% could afford three meals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Somalia is facing a worsening hunger crisis after repeated failed rainy seasons devastated \u200bcrops, killed livestock and depleted water supplies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Conflict and insecurity have compounded the crisis, disrupting livelihoods and limiting access to food, \u200chealthcare \u2060and aid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24018,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-42157","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Funding to tackle acute malnutrition in parts \u200cof Somalia","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42158,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42157\/revisions\/42158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=42157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}