4m people remain in crisis: Somalia

GENEVA - In Somalia, 4 million people remains in crisis, including 1.8 million in humanitarian emergency and 830,000 in an acute food and livelihood crisis, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said here on Tuesday.

OCHA spokesperson Elizabeth Byears said the October to December rains had started in the region and would provide much needed relief for many areas affected by dryness in the Horn of Africa.

However, the rainfall was not be well-distributed. The south of Somalia had seen little to no rainfall which was expected to exacerbate the drought, result in unfavorable conditions for upcoming cropping activities and further deplete water resources.

At the same time, torrential rain had hit drought displaced families living in camps in Mogadishu, causing additional suffers to the displaced.