Somalia president Mohamed Abdulahi Farmajo has on Monday met with the country’s leading businessmen in Mogadishu to highlight anxious droughts that affected large parts of the country.
The meeting which took place at Jazeera Hotel underscored country’s worsening humanitarian crisis and how the public can react on the matter before it turns into famine.
Abdi Abshir Dhoore who is the chamber house chief said president has asked the businessmen to bestow donations for the ongoing process.
“We have discussed how can we declare a joint response for the drought and we agreed to make any effort that could mitigate the drought ‘ Dhoore has said.
In recent weeks, aid agencies have become increasingly anxious as conditions in Somalia have deteriorated. More than 360,000 children under the age of five are now acutely malnourished, with 71,000 of them being severely malnourished.
The number of people in need of urgent humanitarian assistance has jumped from 5 million six months ago to 6.2 million — almost half the country’s population. The number of people in “crisis and emergency” has risen from 1.1 million to 2.9 million.
