Highlights
Heavy rains continues to cause significant dispatch and distribution delays for the emergency response, and has led to flooding. WFP has provided ad-hoc food assistance to some 85,000 flood-affected people in Somali region.
WFP is deploying regional coordinators to all regions to augment the provision and scale-up of the Targeted Supplementary Feeding programme nationwide.
A complement to the 2016 Humanitarian Requirements Document (HRD), the “Prioritization Statement”, was released on 10 May.
Situation Update
Heavy rains in Somali region continues to delay dispatches and distributions in the region.
Recent floods have affected more than 150,000 people in Somali region. Floods have displaced more than 65,000, destroyed houses, roads, bridges and crops, and killed livestock. The government’s National Flood Contingency Plan forecasts close to 500,000 people affected country-wide.
WFP is responding to a request for assistance from the Somali regional government, and is providing food assistance to some 85,000 flood-affected people in the region.
WFP has so far provided ad-hoc food assistance to more than 20,000 flood-affected people in Jijiga and Korahe Zone of Somali Region since April, and will support an additional 65,000 people displaced by floods in Shebelle Zone, Somali region. WFP will continue to assess the situation in affected areas.
A complement to the 2016 HRD, the “Prioritization Statement”, was released on 10 May. The statement establishes the total 2016 humanitarian needs (a combination of new and priority unaddressed needs from the original HRD) at 1.5 billion, with USD703 million still needed for the rest of the year.