With repeated cycles of flooding and drought over many years, swarms of desert locusts threatening food security, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, Somalia is in the grip of a climate – and now public health – emergency, which is only compounded by two decades of armed conflict, all of which are having a devastating effect on the lives and livelihoods of the Somalian people, 70% of whom are poor.

Full text available here: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/05/15/world-bank-approves-137-5-million-for-somalias-response-to-covid-19-floods-and-drought