ICC Note:
Somalia is teetering on the brink of a third famine that could affect over 6 million men, women, and children.  The last famine occurred in 2011 and killed almost 300,000 people. This famine is coming as a drought sweeps Somalia. It has been declared a national disaster by the Somalian government. The UN Secretary General called on the international community to support those struggling to feed themselves and their families.  
3/07/2017 Somalia (Al Jazeera) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has arrived in Somalia on an emergency visit aimed at drumming up support for an effort to avert a famine that could affect 6.2 million people.
Guterres said the world “must act now” after he arrived in the capital Mogadishu.
Somalia’s newly-elected President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed met with the UN chief on Tuesday.
“My first priority is to address this drought crisis and my main priority is to make an appeal to the international community to help us,” Mohamed said.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned there are just two months left to avert what would be Somalia’s third famine in 25 years. The last one, in 2011, killed nearly 260,000 people.
The situation has become “significantly worse in the last six months,” the UN said on Monday.
 
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