Somalia (including Puntland and Somaliland)

Political instability and drought make conditions in Somalia among the most challenging worldwide for humanitarian aid agencies.

Insecurity Insight documents conflict events affecting aid operations, education, food and water systems and health care in Somalia.

Our data can be downloaded on the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) and corresponding reports can be accessed below.

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SHCC 2023 Factsheet (EN)

SHCC 2023 Factsheet (AR)

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Health Care

2021-2023 Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) Factsheet

Based on Insecurity Insight data, the SHCC identified 21 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in Somalia, including Puntland and Somaliland in 2023, 12 in 2022 and nine in 2021, compared to ten in 2020, when the last SHCC report chapter on Somalia was published. In 2023, 12 health workers were killed and health facilities were damaged on eight occasions. Violence between Somaliland armed forces and local Dhulbahante militias damaged health facilities in the contested Las Anod region during 2023. Violence towards health workers was more widely dispersed across Somalia.  Available in Arabic and English.

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Published every two weeks, Insecurity Insight’s Attacks on Health Care New Brief tracks global threats and violence as well as protests and other events affecting the delivery of and access to health care. Explore our interactive map to see where incidents happened.

Reports

Conflict and Hunger

Insecurity Insight monitors conflict events affecting food insecurity in Somalia and complies these in the Food Insecurity and Violent Conflict (FIVC)-Somalia dataset which is accessible on Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX). The categorisation of events in this dataset follows the Monitoring and Evaluation of Food Insecurity in Conflicts (MEFIC) framework, an analytical approach for understanding the links between conflict and food insecurity.