Alert note: Emergency Drought Response in Somalia and Somaliland

Guryasamo has submitted an alert note due to drought in Somalia and Somaliland.

The nature of the crisis is severe drought in Somalia and Somaliland facing a catastrophic humanitarian crisis as a severe, slow-onset drought tightens its grip on the nation in 2025. This is not an isolated disaster but a brutal escalation in a relentless cycle of climatic shocks that has shattered the resilience of the Somali people. The crisis was precipitated by the failure of the Deyr 2024 rains, followed by a critically poor Gu season in 2025, plunging the country into a state of emergency defined by acute water scarcity, widespread food insecurity, and mass displacement

An estimated 1.7 million children under five are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition, including 466,000 children facing Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), putting them at a high risk of death. Women and Girls face heightened risks of gender-based violence (GBV), particularly when displaced or forced to travel long distances for water.