World News in Brief: Somalia drought response, Gaza and Ukraine aid updates, human rights abuses in Tunisia

Key points

• Tweet URL The World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Thursday that drought, conflict and severe funding shortfalls are pushing millions into food insecurity across the country.
• Around 6.5 million people are now experiencing crisis-level hunger or worse, nearly double the number recorded a year ago.
• Of those, two million are facing emergency levels of food insecurity, while more than 1.8 million children are expected to suffer acute malnutrition this year.
• Lack of funding Although Somalia is better positioned to respond than during the country’s devastating 2022 drought crisis, humanitarian agencies say funding shortages are forcing major cutbacks.
• The agency, which delivers nearly 90 per cent of food assistance in Somalia, said it had provided emergency cash transfers to 380,000 drought-affected people through Government-backed systems aimed at strengthening national social protection efforts.