A Million People Face Starvation in Somalia as Funding Dries Up

Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the worldAmericas+1 212 318 2000EMEA+44 20 7330 7500Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the worldAmericas+1 212 318 2000EMEA+44 20 7330 7500Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000One million people in Somalia are under threat of severe hunger amid a lack of funding to tackle disasters, according to a leading domestic charity.Scarce rain and warmer temperatures since September have caused drought conditions across the Horn of Africa, with the hottest regions of Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya exceeding 2 degrees celsius (3.6 degrees fahrenheit) above the average, according to the Joint Research Center of the European Commission.