The vast majority of famine claims are hoaxes perpetrated for financial and political gain. Anytime the UN’s WFP or a Muslim terror state claims there’s a famine, be very, very skeptical because 9 times out of 10, it’s about extracting cash and political capital and then reselling the food on the black market.
Pulling a fake famine hoax is how we got dragged into Somalia (and how Somalia came to America) as I discussed in yesterday’s article, ‘US Spent $10B and 42 American Lives Trying to Help Somalia‘.
Sen. George Mitchell of Maine championed intervention to aid Somalis after the United Nations faked a famine, claiming that millions of Somalis were “on the brink of starving to death.” “The worst humanitarian disaster in the world today,” the former director of OFDA, the predecessor to USAID, claimed. There was no actual famine, millions were not starving and any food shortages were limited to a handful of rural areas, not the city of Mogadishu where our soldiers were sent.
A reluctant President George H.W. Bush finally gave in to political pressure and agreed to dispatch 26,000 American troops to save Somalis from ‘famine’. The intervention was originally supposed to cost $200 million, but soon ballooned to $885 million or over $2 billion today.
The 4.5 million Somalis starving to death proved to be just as fictional as the UN’s subsequent fake famines in Gaza, Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen, By 1996, the Somali population had increased by around 500,000 since the beginning of the civil war, and was up by nearly 20% by the end of the decade. These numbers were not consistent with famine, but a temporary population drop due to Somalis from certain clans fleeing to other countries to escape the fighting. The claims that 300,000 had died in Somalia from famine had little basis in reality and even humanitarian aid workers admitted that a malaria outbreak was behind most of the dying.
But we never stopped sending money to Somalia. Or importing Somalia to America.
Over the last decade, $9.3 billion was spent on Somalia. Over $10 billion since 9/11. While the spending has dropped in the second Trump administration, another $150 million was allocated for 2025.
Somalia is back to crying famine
Parts of Somalia are at real risk of famine at the start of 2026, a Somali minister has warned – with the number of people classified in “food emergency” having tripled in the country’s South West State this year.
Nasir Arush, minister of humanitarian affairs in South West State, told The Independent that the crisis was driven by cuts to humanitarian aid in the country, which have been felt particularly accutely in his state.
According to the WFP, which we sadly still fund, Somalia is in a “state of emergency” and it needs $266 million. Of course the UN’s WFP told the same lies about Gaza, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, you name it. If there are Islamic terrorists there, the WFP immediately declares a famine.
Meanwhile the Somali regime actually stole the aid we funded through the WFP.
Somalia’s government on Thursday, January 8, denied an allegation by the US government that authorities in Mogadishu destroyed an American-funded warehouse belonging to the World Food Programme (WFP) and seized food aid earmarked for impoverished civilians. The US State Department said Wednesday that it has suspended all assistance from Washington to Somalia’s federal government over the allegations, saying the Trump administration has “a zero-tolerance policy for waste, theft and diversion of life-saving assistance.”
A senior US State Department official said authorities at the Mogadishu port demolished the warehouse of the World Food Programme, a Rome-based UN agency, at the direction of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud “with no prior notification or coordination with international donor countries, including the United States.”
It never fails. Send more aid, get more theft.
We’ve spoken often about the fake famine in Gaza, but it’s one in a series of fake famines.
Despite claims by the UN that half of Yemen’s children were “severely malnourished” and that 85,000 children had died from malnutrition, the country’s population actually shot up from 30 million to 39 million.
Last December, Cindy McCain, the executive director of the World Food Program, claimed that the organization could “use $17 billion right now” because “people in Syria will starve to death.”
McCain and the WFP have also been insisting that Afghanistan was on the verge of famine, and once again blamed President Trump’s aid cuts (that were benefiting the Taliban). Back in 2021, Cindy McCain tweeted, “millions of people in Afghanistan are facing starvation this winter.”
They didn’t starve to death in Afghanistan, in Syria, in Gaza, in Somalia, in Yemen or anywhere else.
Anytime the UN claims there’s a famine, we should stop believing it. We need to cut off the WFP. And the rest of the UN.
