Rapidly increasing food prices and a delayed and poor start of seasonal gu rains (mid‐April to June) that is resulting in a deepening drought have increased the estimated number of people in need of humanitarian assistance in Somalia by June 2008 to over 2.6 million. This figure could rise to as high as 3.5 million by late 2008 if high inflation, drought, and civil insecurity continue. The increased number of people in need of assistance includes an additional 600,000 urban poor who now face an Acute Food and Livelihood Crisis, as well as pastoralists and internally displaced people from Mogadishu. Continued humanitarian interventions targeting these populations are necessary, as is contingency planning for potential further increases in needs.

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