Somalia is experiencing a severe humanitarian emergency, with three consecutive failed rainy seasons leaving the northeastern Puntland region (a semi-autonomous, largely arid zone) strewn with dried water sources, ruined crops, and dead livestock. The World Food Programme warns it can currently reach only one in ten people in urgent need and may be forced to suspend emergency operations entirely by July, after U.S. aid cuts under President Donald Trump helped shrink UN humanitarian funding for Somalia from $2.6 billion in 2023 to $852 million this year — of which only 13% has so far been secured. The crisis is compounded by ongoing conflict, mass displacement, and price shocks linked to the Middle East war, which has pushed fuel costs up by 150% and food commodity prices by as much as 30%, leaving aid workers facing agonising choices about which lives they can afford to save.