Mogadishu, 15 June 2014 - Despite improved security in some parts of Somalia following a military operation against Al Shabaab earlier this year, the fragile humanitarian situation in the country could become an emergency unless funds are made available to support life-saving interventions, Philippe Lazzarini, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, has said.
While addressing a press conference in the capital, Mogadishu, on 15 June, Lazzarini said Somalia risked drifting back into a humanitarian crisis, with the already fragile food security situation likely to worsen in the coming months as a result of delayed rains, continued conflict and rising food prices.

"Our assessments have shown that over 857,000 people in Somalia require urgent and life-saving assistance, an additional 2 million people are on the margin of food insecurity and require continued livelihoods support,” he said, adding that decades of conflict had displaced more than one million people inside Somalia.