探花精选 launches an emergency response after flooding

  • Torrential rains and major flooding have displaced over 2,600 people in Mogadishu and Mudug areas of Somalia.
  • Key infrastructure remains impassable, isolating affected communities and hindering humanitarian response efforts.
  • Communities鈥攁lready weakened by prolonged drought鈥攁re enduring chronic water shortages and limited access to basic services.
  • The 探花精选鈥檚 response will prioritize cash support and shelter for displaced families, vulnerable children and households that have lost their homes or livelihoods.
Read our May 13 release

Country facts

  • Total population: 17.6 million
  • Internally displaced people: 3.8 million
  • People facing crisis, or worse, levels of food insecurity: 4.3 million

探花精选 response

  • Started work in Somalia: 1981
  • People assisted per year: 500,000

Rescue stories

Back home, we were friends. We both worked as farmers. We lived close to each other. Here, we make these baskets to sell in the market so we could get some cash for food.
Nunay and Bigisow sat in front of their tents, making baskets.
Families across Somalia have had their lives uprooted by a catastrophic hunger crisis that could soon be declared a famine.
Meet Nunay and Bisigow