The acute lack of external financing has led to a reduction or complete stop of humanitarian programs aimed at helping Somalia. Drought, armed conflict and high food prices can lead to hunger in Somalia Humanitarian assistance for April 2025 almost four and a half million people in Somalia may encounter hunger because of a drought, ongoing conflict and high food prices. The Somali government and a number of UN agencies were warned about this. The warning of the Somali authorities, the food and agricultural organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UKGV), the UN Children’s Fund (UNISEF) and the UN World Food Program (Runny) was heard against the background of the last classification of food security phases according to which 3.4 million people They are already experiencing hunger at a crisis level or higher. According to forecasts, this number will increase to 4.4 million people (23 percent of the population) in the period from April to June 2025, when precipitation is predicted below the average level. & Amp; nbsp; “The increasing drought poses a serious threat to communities, which are already experiencing huge difficulties in the context of the ongoing conflict,” said Mohamud Moallim, Commissioner of the Agency for the Elimination of the Consequences of Somali’s natural disasters. – It is necessary to take urgent measures to save people’s lives, protect the means of existence and prevent further suffering. ”~ 60 > most of all in the current situation are farmers, in which low yields led to a low productivity depletion of food supplies, internally displaced faces and cattle breeders with a limited livestock Cattle. 60 > acute lack of external financing led to a reduction or complete stop of humanitarian programs aimed at the help of Somali. The UN urges urgently to allocate funds to expand the scale of food assistance, support in the field of nutrition, water supply and sanitation, as well as initiatives to ensure existence. To date, a plan for humanitarian response to Somalia for 2025, which provides for the allocation of 1.42 billion dollars, is funded only by 12.4 percent. “constant climatic shocks, prolonged conflict, outbreaks of diseases and widespread poverty aggravate the humanitarian crisis In Somalia, ”said Kripen Ruzash, head of the UKGV office in Somalia. – Humanitarian agencies do everything possible to save lives, but they urgently need adequate financing. ” ~ ~ 60 > according to estimates, in December 2025, acute malnutrition threatens 1.7 million Somali children in age up to five years. About 466 thousand children from this number suffer from acute malnutrition, which is nine percent more than the same period of last year. & Amp; nbsp;