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STORY: UN / SOMALIA UPDATE
TRT: 02:23
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 08 JULY 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
08 JULY 2025, NEW NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric at the podium
3. Med shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Somalia faces an already difficult food security situation, with some 4.6 million human beings facing high acute food insecurity across the country and 1.8 million children under the age of 5 expected to be acutely malnourished this year. Our partners report that food assistance has dropped more than 50 percent compared to the same period last year. Across Somalia, more than 150 clinics have been impacted in the first half of this year, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without access to the most basic healthcare. Funding for water and sanitation programmes stands at just 6.5 percent of what is required.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“In Middle Shabelle region, more than 28 nutrition sites could be closed by the end of this month. The closures will significantly affect nutrition services for vulnerable children, pregnant and nursing mothers in a region that has one of the highest malnutrition rates in Somalia. In Banadir, more than 12,700 malnourished children, including more than 1,100 suffering from severe acute malnutrition and at risk of death, will soon lose lifesaving treatment as 20 supplementary feeding sites face imminent closure. And in the South-West State, mobile outreach health teams have dropped from 74 last year to just 25 currently. In Puntland State, 79 health facilities, including all 29 public health units have ceased functioning since the start of the year. Humanitarian agencies have had to reprioritize their activities based on this lack of funding.”
7. Wide shot, Dujarric at the podium
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The $1.4 billion Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan for Somalia is just over 15 percent funded, with only $222 million in the bank. The Food Security and Nutrition sectors are only 5 and 3 percent funded, respectively.
We, of course, are all extremely concerned that without urgent and sustained funding, the humanitarian crisis in Somalia will only deepen, leading to preventable suffering and loss of life.”
9. Wide shot, end of briefing
United Nations Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, today (8 Jul) said there are “some 4.6 million human beings facing high acute food insecurity” across Somalia, while “food assistance has dropped more than 50 percent compared to the same period last year.”
Dujarric said the country faces a “difficult food security situation,” with “1.8 million children under the age of 5 expected to be acutely malnourished this year.”
He said, “funding for water and sanitation programmes stands at just 6.5 percent of what is required,” and “more than 150 clinics” have been impacted by funding cuts in the first half of this year, “leaving hundreds of thousands of people without access to the most basic healthcare.”
The spokesperson said, “in Middle Shabelle region, more than 28 nutrition sites could be closed by the end of this month. The closures will significantly affect nutrition services for vulnerable children, pregnant and nursing mothers in a region that has one of the highest malnutrition rates in Somalia. In Banadir, more than 12,700 malnourished children, including more than 1,100 suffering from severe acute malnutrition and at risk of death, will soon lose lifesaving treatment as 20 supplementary feeding sites face imminent closure. And in the South-West State, mobile outreach health teams have dropped from 74 last year to just 25 currently. In Puntland State, 79 health facilities, including all 29 public health units have ceased functioning since the start of the year.”
He said, “humanitarian agencies have had to reprioritize their activities based on this lack of funding.”
Dujarric noted that “the $1.4 billion Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan for Somalia is just over 15 percent funded, with only $222 million in the bank. The Food Security and Nutrition sectors are only 5 and 3 percent funded, respectively.”
He said, “without urgent and sustained funding, the humanitarian crisis in Somalia will only deepen, leading to preventable suffering and loss of life.”
