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UN aid chief says situation in Somalia worsened by US war on Iran
NewsFeedUN relief coordinator Tom Fletcher has slammed the war on Iran during a visit to Somalia where he says people in Mogadishu are suffering more as a result of the US-Israeli conflict 3,000km away. He says resources being diverted away from aid have exacerbated food shortages and worsened health conditions.Published On 29 Apr 2026
Life and death: Iran war is latest blow to Somalia's malnourished ...
AMMU KANNAMPILLY and OLIVIA LE POIDEVIN, of Reuters, report on the impacts famine, foreign aid cuts and now the war on Iran is having in Somalia… Nairobi, Kenya/Geneva, Switzerland Reuters For Somalia’s malnourished children, already suffering the twin catastrophes of looming famine and radical cuts in foreign aid, the US-Israeli war on Iran means more than soaring petrol pump prices; it is a matter of life and death. Shortages of lifesaving therapeutic foods exacerbated by shipping disruptions are forcing clinics to turn away severely malnourished children and ration supplies, Reuters reporting shows. An internally displaced Somali woman feeds her malnourished child at the Daynile hospital as shortages of lifesaving therapeutic foods caused by shipping disruptions due to the Iran war have forced clinics treating severely malnourished children to turn away patients and ration supplies in drought-hit Somalia, in Daynile district of Mogadishu, Somalia, on 20th April, 2026. PICTURE: Reuters/Feisal Omar Almost half a million children under five suffer from “severe acute malnutrition” or “wasting”, the most life-threatening form of hunger, and the delays are worsening the effect of the aid reductions. “Since the needs are large and we don’t have a lot of supplies, we have had to keep reducing the amount we give children.” – Nurse Hassan Yahye Kheyre Health workers in Baidoa and Mogadishu say they have had to stretch out meagre stocks of specialised milk and nutrient-dense peanut-based paste vital to saving these children. “Since the needs are large and we don’t have a lot of supplies, we have had to keep reducing the amount we give children,” nurse Hassan Yahye Kheyre said. The 225 cartons of peanut paste remaining at his clinic, which treats more than 1,200 children, will probably be exhausted within two weeks, according to the International Rescue Committee, which supplies the facility. “If treatment is on-and-off, the children will become very weak, physically and mentally. And it may not be possible to reverse it,” Kheyre added. The IRC is one of three aid groups that said transport delays and rising costs linked to the war in Iran were making an already complicated situation worse. At the clinic in the south-western city of Baidoa, run by IRC’s local partner READO, mother-of-nine Muumino Adan Aamin has been trying to get peanut paste for Ruweido, her 11-month-old daughter. Ruweido is on a regimen of three sachets a day but Aamin has been turned away tw...
Iran War Is Latest Blow to Somalia's Malnourished Children
The IRC is one of three aid groups that said transport delays and rising costs linked to the war in Iran were making an already complicated situation worse.
Iran War Is Latest Blow to Somalia's Malnourished Children
For Somalia's malnourished children, already suffering the twin catastrophes of looming famine and radical cuts in foreign aid, the US-Israeli war on Iran means more than soaring petrol pump prices; it is a matter of life and death. Shortages of lifesaving therapeutic foods exacerbated by shipping disruptions are forcing clinics to turn away severely malnourished children and ration supplies ...
