# Two global food monitors say areas of southern Somalia are at risk of famine, with one district reaching a level of hunger not seen in the country since 2022. One of the world’s most food-insecure nations because of frequent drought, conflict and poverty, Somalia last experienced famine in 2011, when around 250-thousand people died, and came close in 2017 and 2022. According to a report by the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, more than 37-percent of young children in the Burhakaba District of southern Somalia’s Bay Region suffer from acute malnutrition.
Parts of Somalia face famine risk