- Most pastoral poor households are facing survival deficits due to poor successive seasons and high staple food prices, particularly in the Northwest and Southeast border pastoral livelihood zones, which are highly food insecure. Households in the Central pastoral zones are facing livelihood protection deficits. The numbers of persons in need of emergency assistance both food and livelihood protection interventions are expected to increase for the coming months if the current poor rainfall persists.
- In urban areas, food security situation is precarious due to high unemployment rate and high staple food prices. High malnutrition rates have been observed in Balbala according to the preliminary results of a July 2009 MSF study. Water shortages and the increase in water prices in Balbala area are also concerns.
- Though livestock exports have risen by 500 percent since the opening of a livestock export facility in in 2007, the recent lifting of Saudi Arabia's import ban on Somali livestock may have negative effects on exports from Djibouti, resulting to livelihood crisis for those poor households who rely on related activities for their daily income.
